What are the 10 tricky words?

We've rounded up ten of the trickiest words in English and provided tips that will help you stop misspelling them.
  • Necessary.
  • Stationary vs. Stationery.
  • Separate.
  • Affect vs. Effect.
  • Embarrassed.
  • Compliment vs. Complement.
  • Accommodation.
  • Rhythm.

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What are the 20 difficult words?

20 Most Difficult Words to Pronounce in the English Language
  • Colonel.
  • Worcestershire.
  • Mischievous.
  • Draught.
  • Quinoa.
  • Onomatopoeia.
  • Scissors.
  • Anemone.

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What are the top 10 hardest words?

10 most difficult words in English
  • Literally. If you know a language purist, watch out. ...
  • Ironic. Here is a word that has confused almost all English speakers – native or otherwise. ...
  • Irregardless (instead of regardless) ...
  • Whom. ...
  • Colonel. ...
  • Nonplussed. ...
  • Disinterested. ...
  • Enormity.

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What are the 50 difficult words?

50 Difficult Words with Meanings and Examples
  • Abnegation /abnɪˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n/: Renouncing a belief or doctrine. ...
  • Aggrandize /əˈɡrandʌɪz/: enhance power, wealth or status. ...
  • Alacrity /əˈlakrɪti/: Eagerness. ...
  • Anachronistic /ənakrəˈnɪstɪk/: misplaced chronologically. ...
  • Archetypal /ˌɑːkɪˈtʌɪp(ə)l/: quintessential of a certain kind.

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What are the 5 hardest words to spell?

Top 10 Hardest Words to Spell
  • Weird.
  • Intelligence.
  • Pronunciation.
  • Handkerchief.
  • logorrhea.
  • Chiaroscurist.
  • Pochemuchka.
  • Gobbledegook.

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What is the #1 misspelled word?

The majority of English-speaking countries, the U.S., UK, Canada, and Australia, each have "coolly" and "minuscule" listed as their most-misspelled words, according to WordTips.

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What are 5 unfamiliar words?

10 unusual words to add to your English vocabulary
  • Anachronism. An anachronism is something (or someone) that is out of place in terms of time or chronology. ...
  • Accismus. A form of irony in which someone feigns indifference to something he or she desires. ...
  • Cacophony. ...
  • Draconian. ...
  • Limerence. ...
  • Pareidolia. ...
  • Riposte. ...
  • Sanctimony.

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What are the 5 hard words?

7 most difficult English words that will let you forget what you wanted to say
  • Rural. ...
  • Sixth. ...
  • Sesquipedalian. ...
  • Phenomenon. ...
  • Onomatopoeia. ...
  • Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. ...
  • Worcestershire.

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What is a hard 5 letter word?

  • Adieu.
  • Tares.
  • Rural.
  • Ducat.
  • Ouija.
  • Carom.
  • Ergot.
  • Craic.

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What is the longest F word?

floccinaucinihilipilification (29).

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What is the 5 longest word?

10 Longest Words in the English Language
  • Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters) ...
  • Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (36 letters) ...
  • Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (34 letters) ...
  • Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters) ...
  • Floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters)

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What is the 3 longest word?

14 of the Longest Words in English
  1. 1 Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (forty-five letters): ...
  2. 2 Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (thirty letters): ...
  3. 3 Floccinaucinihilipilification (twenty-nine letters): ...
  4. 4 Antidisestablishmentarianism (twenty-eight letters):

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What are some struggle words?

synonyms for struggle
  • attempt.
  • battle.
  • clash.
  • combat.
  • conflict.
  • contest.
  • effort.
  • encounter.

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What is the 45 word?

The longest word entered in most standard English dictionaries is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis with 45 letters. Our definition is "a lung disease caused by inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust." The entry for this word can be found in our Medical Dictionary.

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What words are hard for kids?

And here's how they actually tend to pronounce them.
  • · Amblance (ambulance)
  • · Aminal (animal)
  • · Babbit (rabbit)
  • · Pasgetti (spaghetti)
  • · Binoclars (binoculars)
  • · Confoo'd (confused)
  • · Constructions (instructions)
  • · Hopital (hospital)

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What is the 15 word?

15 in words is written as Fifteen.

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What are the 20 vocabulary words?

20+ Vocabulary Words You Should Use
  • Archaic (adjective) Definition: very old or old fashioned. ...
  • Zephyr (noun) Definition: a brief gusty wind. ...
  • Quiescent (adjective) Definition: peacefulness, dormant, inactive. ...
  • Plethora (noun) Definition: excess, a large amount. ...
  • Degust (verb) ...
  • Poignant (adjective) ...
  • Abate (verb) ...
  • Sycophant (noun)

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What are 58 words in English?

58 in words is Fifty-Eight.

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What is the weirdest word?

Here are the 12 weirdest words in English:
  • Vex.
  • Bequeath.
  • Mixology.
  • Flub.
  • Kerfuffle.
  • Bibble.
  • Kakorrhaphiophobia.
  • Berserk.

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What is a very uncommon word?

1. Serendipity. This word appears in numerous lists of untranslatable words and is a mystery mostly for non native speakers of English.

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What are the hardest spelling bee words?

Top Ten Most Brutal Spelling Bee Words
  • Soubrette. Year: 1953. ...
  • Albumen. Year: 1928. ...
  • Eudaemonic. Year: 1960. ...
  • Chiaroscurist. Year: 1998. ...
  • Autochthonous. Year: 2004. ...
  • Insouciant. Year: 1951. ...
  • Staphylococci. Year: 1987. ...
  • Foulard. Year: 1931. Origin: This word is from French.

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What word is mostly spelled wrong?

Accommodate. “Accommodate” was the most commonly misspelled word on both Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com in 2021. Kelly believes this word tops both lists because it's so hard to remember that both the C and the M are doubled. With both consonants doubled like that, it almost looks wrong, but it's correct.

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What are 3 commonly misspelled words?

Other “ance” and “ence” words that are commonly misspelled: guidance (not guidence) occurrence (not occurrance. perseverance (not perseverence)

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