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If You Can Score 30/33 On This Spelling Quiz, You’re Smarter Than Most Americans
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If You Can Score 30/33 On This Spelling Quiz, You’re Smarter Than Most Americans

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We all mess up a word sometimes and end up googling “how do you spell…” to make sure. It turns out that people from different states in the US search for different words more often than others. So, we took the most googled spelling searches and turned them into a quiz.

Ready to see how you’ll do with these 33 words? Let’s go! 📝

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    zzbc6m22fq
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    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    C'mon. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?? Where does that appear in the O.E.D.? You might as well as used "bumdiddlediddledlddledumdiddleai" or "Expelliarmus".

    Robert T
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    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Got one wrong because I did it too quickly. 4 is spelt differently in British and American English, and oddly both versions are given, so I don't know if the American spelling gets marked as correct or not. Patients is the correct spelling of a different word! Never heard of 14 - had to look that one up.

    Nikki Sevven
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Apparently, I'm an American who has always spelled #4 the British way.

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    Herringbone
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    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Without context, several alternative spellings are valid words: secrete - to hide; crotchet - musical note; busyness - the state of being busy; patients - ill people.

    Hodge Elmwood
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, but you can usually figure out which one they want. Crochet is obviously the correct answer, so crotchet can't be. Business was spelled incorrectly several times so "busyness" wasn't what they were looking for. Sometimes it's a process of elimination because most of the misspellings are very obvious.

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    Ace
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    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bit of an antagonistic title, for sure. Couple of them had valid alternatives, given the meaning was not specified, so you have to guess which is the required word for crotchet and patients. The only related one of these that I sometimes struggle with is 'unnecessary', which I got first time here, but normally would stand about a 50% chance of getting all the right double letters straight off.

    Neal fy
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seriously? Elementary school type s**t

    Christos Arvanitis
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    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Massachusetts resident here. My friends and I often talk about our struggles to properly spell "beautiful". We are at a loss. We don't know what to do or who failed us. Did we not pay enough attention to teaching this word when we were growing up? The struggle is real... s/

    XenoMurph
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always remember by the fact Beau is at the start, somehow I am able to remember how to spell that.

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    Eppe
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you're going to bash Americans, there may be a few things more important than spelling at the moment.

    Vanessa Panerosa
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    6 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And perhaps a correlation between the two. Also if you’re going to try to get us canceled, then understand we can also be cancelled.

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    Scott Rackley
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    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always have to stop and think about how to spell "friend", it's my nemesis word, and you'd think by now I would have learned how. Nope! Fiend with an R.

    Ace
    Community Member
    Premium
    6 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still fall back on the "I before E except after C" rule even though I know that in fact it's not generally true. Somehow all the other exceptions are obvious. Weird.

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    Jay F
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I sure didn't know it was spelled 'sergeant' ... still got it right though! But it should have listed 'sargent' as a choice.

    Epona
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm Canadian! I didn't even need to take this quiz! I got 3 wrong, because I wasn't paying close enough attention.

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    zzbc6m22fq
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    C'mon. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?? Where does that appear in the O.E.D.? You might as well as used "bumdiddlediddledlddledumdiddleai" or "Expelliarmus".

    Robert T
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Got one wrong because I did it too quickly. 4 is spelt differently in British and American English, and oddly both versions are given, so I don't know if the American spelling gets marked as correct or not. Patients is the correct spelling of a different word! Never heard of 14 - had to look that one up.

    Nikki Sevven
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Apparently, I'm an American who has always spelled #4 the British way.

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    Herringbone
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Without context, several alternative spellings are valid words: secrete - to hide; crotchet - musical note; busyness - the state of being busy; patients - ill people.

    Hodge Elmwood
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, but you can usually figure out which one they want. Crochet is obviously the correct answer, so crotchet can't be. Business was spelled incorrectly several times so "busyness" wasn't what they were looking for. Sometimes it's a process of elimination because most of the misspellings are very obvious.

    Load More Replies...
    Ace
    Community Member
    Premium
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bit of an antagonistic title, for sure. Couple of them had valid alternatives, given the meaning was not specified, so you have to guess which is the required word for crotchet and patients. The only related one of these that I sometimes struggle with is 'unnecessary', which I got first time here, but normally would stand about a 50% chance of getting all the right double letters straight off.

    Neal fy
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seriously? Elementary school type s**t

    Christos Arvanitis
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Massachusetts resident here. My friends and I often talk about our struggles to properly spell "beautiful". We are at a loss. We don't know what to do or who failed us. Did we not pay enough attention to teaching this word when we were growing up? The struggle is real... s/

    XenoMurph
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always remember by the fact Beau is at the start, somehow I am able to remember how to spell that.

    Load More Replies...
    Eppe
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you're going to bash Americans, there may be a few things more important than spelling at the moment.

    Vanessa Panerosa
    Community Member
    6 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And perhaps a correlation between the two. Also if you’re going to try to get us canceled, then understand we can also be cancelled.

    Load More Replies...
    Scott Rackley
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always have to stop and think about how to spell "friend", it's my nemesis word, and you'd think by now I would have learned how. Nope! Fiend with an R.

    Ace
    Community Member
    Premium
    6 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still fall back on the "I before E except after C" rule even though I know that in fact it's not generally true. Somehow all the other exceptions are obvious. Weird.

    Load More Replies...
    Jay F
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I sure didn't know it was spelled 'sergeant' ... still got it right though! But it should have listed 'sargent' as a choice.

    Epona
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm Canadian! I didn't even need to take this quiz! I got 3 wrong, because I wasn't paying close enough attention.

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