Is there a word you habitually misspell even though you know how to spell it?

I wish I could say no, but with my brain being so "foggy" from fibromyalgia (and Heaven knows what else), I'm misspelling more and more words. If you want to call that "habitually misspelling", then yep, I do it... now. As for one specific word, I'm not sure. I haven't been keeping track or my poor brain doesn't remember. I JUST responded to another discussion and saw that I had misspelled "berserk" and wrote "or" instead of "for", but I don't think there's any specific words I constantly misspell. I once chatted with a fella who constantly typed "wont" for "want". He was from Georgia and had an exceptionally strong southern drawl and spoke the word like "wont" so I assume that he naturally thought the word was spelled that way. But, being a typesetter and proofreader for so many years, I naturally had to know how to spell, read and type words correctly. If I didn't know them, I had to look them up. Even now, with my brain problems, I KNOW the word is wrong if I spell it wrong, but have to re-read what I type to know that I've misspelled it. My fingers used to have little brains of their own and almost always spelled words correctly, but even my little fingers' brains have gone on permanent vacation. (Oh, and yes, I know I spelled "fellow" as "fella" but that was intentional.)

There are several words that I frequently misspell. I believe that the most common one is niece. I have a problem remembering which comes first, the i or the e. Even when I spell it correctly, it looks wrong to me. I know what you mean about Kentucky speech. My mother was born there but left with her parents at an early age, and I married a man from Kentucky. My fingers do really have a mind of their own. Due to arthritis, I have a crooked forefinger. That finger loves the letter j and frequently deposits it in the middle of a word for no apparent reason, other than its love of the letter.

I seem to have a bit of problem with spelling my own first name at the moment! I DO know how to spell it, promise, but my fingers and brain don't seem to be communicate well right now.

Yes, i do. I often invert letter. Such as point becomes piont or that becomes taht. Things like that. I do not know how to type i use my two index fingers. Somtimes one becomes a little faster than the other.

Actually, i do have some words that i habitually misspell like the word "receive". I habitually intechange the "e" and "i" and sometimes looks like this "recieve". I fell ashamed sometimes when I misspell it lol

Umm I would have to say all of them lol. Sometimes when I get really sleepy I can't spell worth a flip and they a get screwed up lol.

I tend to have a hard time spelling sincerely

For me it would be but for put. I have caught myself, a number of times, keying a "b" when I should key a "p".

"My fingers, I guess, have a mind of their own!" Don't they just! I never manage to type anything without correcting it. My typing is quite dyslexic. I generally make a mistake with words light catch or watch and usually misspell them, thank goodness for spell check!

uhmm.. me? I always misspell the word okay as ok specially when I'm texting. LOL!

I think there is always different words misspelled by different people habitually. Everyone has his own insensitive words. To me, they are 'believe' or 'receive', and so on. Maybe it's also a intereting thing beyond writting words.

I misspelled the word people for the longest time. I thought it was "peaple" until college no lie. I am a really great speller too but certain words must have stuck in my head wrong when I was learning phonics and never was corrected. When I type I always have certain words I never fail to type wrong in teh same way everytime. It's ridiculous. I type "the" "teh" every time. Now I need to go change the one in the first line haha

Hi,good discussion, i always do that, one day, i want to send an e-mail to a customer, i want to say:"i'm very glad to hear you say that" but unfortable, i will change to"i'm glad to hear me say that",this is only typing that, not by my realize that. after my realize the e-mail has already sent out. those mistake always happaned on my daily life.

hahaha, actually there are alot of words that I type them how I say it. I'm really good at spelling actually, but I LIKE typing like that because it just describes my personality moreso then if I were typing with complete proper grammer and spelling. I mean, that would explain me fine, but I find it boring. so I say things like instead of "hey there" I say "hey thuuur." just because :) I love putting more letters in to emphasize the word. like, when I say hello or hey or whatever, I'm like "heeey" because, thats how I'd say it in real life. I dont say it quick and easy, I say things dramatically. I'm a very dramatic person. so it doesn't bother me unless people are spelling things really wrong because they don't know how to spell it/because that's actually how they think it is spelled. thats the only thing about it that irritates me. othhhherwise, I'm diggin' it :)! anyways, peace !

I'd say not often mispell, but misTYPE. Unfortunately, since I seem to type 99.9% of the time of 'writing', I try to speed like a cheetah (metaphor), and so there are typos galore! But I do that mostly on WORD, since it fixes them automatically, and I do spellcheck.

I seem to have trouble with "much" i tend to want to spell it "mutch" ever since i met this family with the last name spelt that way.

Yes, indeed! I often type 'inciteful' instead of 'insightful' - even though I'm well aware of the difference! I have no idea why my fingers automatically do this - but I just can't seem to help it. It's especially annoying as I'm a freelance proofreader, and this sort of error is pretty inexcusable. Also, as I get older, I often find my fingers do something entirely different to what my brain is intending ... which is a bit scary, but unavoidable!

This is so funny! Country folks in Alabama, which is where I'm from, say "winder", too. I consider myself pretty country but I've always said "winda", myself. This reminds me of the movie "Coal Miner's Daughter". At the end of the movie, Loretta Lynn's husband is talking about building a new house and he says something about putting a "picture winder" over here. Have you seen that movie? Like I told one of the other mylotters in this discussion, I was always good in spelling. However, I remember misspelling the word "recieve" when I was in school. I wasn't the only one. Several others in the class misspelled it, too. The words "niece" and "recieve" were two words I always had problems with. I couldn't remember whether the "i" came before the "e". I tend to misspell words unintentionally when I'm tired. Maybe I thought I hit the key but I didn't hit it hard enough. When I'm tired, I don't have much to say, anyway. I always reread my posts before I submit them.

Hmmm, I bet no, there's no word that I habitually misspell even though I know how to spell it. Why? Because I if I misspell the word, I really don't know the real spelling, ha ha ha. And, sometimes, I don't care anyway, specially if it's in SMS, since misspelled words there are acceptable:D

There aren't any words that I don't spell correctly that are like main words I guess like windows. For me the one that I misspell constantly - and completely on purpose is awe. Awe is the correct way to spell the word but like most people out there, when I'm typing it, it comes out as Aww! or Awwwwww! is I start to get really excited. It's something simple and I feel like most people do it without even realizing what they are doing.