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All words can be hard to spell for different people. Some have too many letters. Here are some hard words:

* accommodate

* acknowledgment

* Archaeology

* bookkeeper

* cancelled

* chancellor

* correspondence

* delicatessen

* dilemma

* ecclesiastical

* fortuitous

* knowledgeable

* Massachusetts

* perseverance

* questionnaire

* simultaneous

* unnecessary

* zephyr

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10y ago

A few hard to spell words:

1. ache

2. psychology

3. cynic

4. Sioux

5. subpoena

6. knife

7. pneumatic

8. opaque

9. chorus

10. owe

11. laugh

12. physique

13. once

14. coax

A few more

15. rhythm

16. immediately

17. accommodation

18. diarrhoea / diarrhea (US)

19. supersede

20. precede

21. proceed

22. succeed

23. seize

24. weird

25. occurrence

26. separate

27. pursue

28. harass

29. aisle

30. minuscule

31. embarrass

32. memento

33. privilege

34. millennium

35. definitely

Medical and scientific words :36. duumvir

37. coccyx

38. phlegm

39. axlotl

40. echidna

41. phthalaldehyde

42. ichthyophthiriidae

Legal Scrabble words:43. zyzzyva

44. syzygy

45. muzjiks

46. nylghaus

47. nudzhes

48. tyiyn

49. hryvnia

Longest words(nobody actually expects to spell these, but they are among the longest actual words)

50. spectrophotofluorometrically

51. anaesthetic

52. desalination

53. otorhinolaryngological

54. immunoelectrophoretically

55. psychophysicotherapeutics

56. thyroparathyroidectomized

57. pneumoencephalographically

58. radioimmunoelectrophoresis

59. psychoneuroendocrinological

60. hepaticocholangiogastrostomy

61. antidisestablishmentarianism

62. floccinaucinihilipilification

63. pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism

64. metaphysico-theolo go-cosmonigology

65. praetertranssub stantiationalistically

66. osteosarchaematosplan chnochondroneuromuelous

67. pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

68. osseocarnisanguineovis cericartilaginonervomedullary

69. aequeosalinocalcalinoce raceoaluminosocupreovitriolic

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12y ago

There are lots of them out there, but a good one is lagniappe, because it is pronounced 'lan-yap'.

But one of my favorites is: 'hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia', which is, ironically, the fear of long words.

I've always liked 'onomatopoeia' because of the four consecutive vowels at the end of the word.

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13y ago

1) ratiocination

There is a journal article about this apparently. I think that I may be breaching copyright to copy and paste the words though. (1997) The 100 English words most difficult to pronounce. English Phonetics the Journal of the English Phonetic Society of Japan pp 27-59

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  • Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
  • deoxyribonucleic acid
  • fairebourtoi
  • baccalaureate
  • Floccinoccinihilipilification
  • ACETYL­SERYL­TYROSYL­SERYL­ISO­LEUCYL­TH
  • baccalaureate
  • honorificabilitudinitatibus
  • hippopotomonoistrosesqueipedeaophobia (fear of long words!!)
  • Pipdiddilyottondottondoodabideetandottontiss
  • Schizophrenic
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13y ago

(There is a related link to this exact subject.)

Right at the top of the list would be "misspelled", along with some other common words having letter pairs. Other errors are due to silent vowels or consonants, or words from other languages that retain their original spelling (e.g. hors d'oeuvres, faux).

What are the top 100 hardest words to spell?

What makes a word difficult to spell? This can be several things. A word can be difficult because it has arrived in our English dictionaries from a language very different from our own, like Welsh, Afrikaans, Sanskrit, or others. Because of this, the pronunciation doesn't indicate the spelling. It could have a silent letter, or two, or three. It can be difficult because it has a peculiar double letter, such as aa or ii or kk, etc. So, to pick a list of "the 100 hardest words," we started with a very long list of very difficult words, and we started throwing out words that had some of the same elements of difficulty and we kept culling words. This is, at the very least, a very difficult list of 100 words.

abacaxi

abgesang

abiuret

advocaat

aitch

aloisiite

atlatl

autochthonous

bdelloid

bhagavata

bhikku

bobbejaan

cassioberry

catapleiite

chhatri

chiaroscurist

chihuahua

chlorophyll

chthonic

cixiid

cnemidocoptes

cnidoblast

coelacanth

courtoisie

crwth

ctenii

cywydd

dhole

dvandva

Dzungar

eczema

egueiite

Eichhornia

eudaemonic

fjeld

gnathonic

gneissoid

gnomonic

gnosticize

jharal

Kharijite

khedive

kiekie

kierkegaardian

knaidlach

Kwakiutl

logorrhea

mbira

mlechchha

Myxosporidiida

ngege

ngwee

periscii

pfeffernuss

pfennig

phalaenopsid

phthalein

phthisis

prosciutto

pschent

psephology

pseudaxis

psittaceous

psoriasis

ptarmic

pterodactyl

ptosis

pycnogonid

qiviut

rhathymia

rhotacismus

rijksdaalder

rygbere

sacrilegious

schokker

sforzando

sgabello

shanghaiing

sjambok

soubrette

staphylococci

svedberg

synecdoche

taaffeite

taeniid

takkanah

tchaviche

teonanacatl

tjaele

tsao

Tsingtao

tzigane

Ursprache

vignette

volksraad

vrbaite

weltanschauung

ylem

ytterbium

zuurveldt

zwetschenwasser

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12y ago

Lets see (Some of them may be easy for you)

anarchistic

assimilate

asymptotic

bougainvillea

borgeoisie

bureaucratic

chauvinism

chutzpah

coalescence

crucifixion

Easy? I think them as intermediate.

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9y ago

Words that sound alike but are spelled differently, like:

pear, peer. Other words are ones that use unusual combinations, such as words using 'qu'. And other difficult words are ones that break usual rules.

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1.cynic

2. psychology

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