Were you that kid that always got A+ on their Spelling Bee’s? Well, it’s time for us to test that theory…
Canadians often struggle with spelling various words correctly due to our Canadian way of writing things… Like “colour” instead of “color”, or “favourite” instead of “favorite”, and so on.
While this specific way of writing can be confusing to Canadians everywhere, WordTips decided to come up with a list of the top 10 most commonly misspelled words in Canada, according to Tweets on Twitter.
- Cooly instead of Coolly
- Rate of Misspelling: 49.6%
- Miniscule instead of Minuscule
- Rate of Misspelling: 37.4%
- Liason instead of Liaison
- Rate of Misspelling: 35.7%
- Sargent instead of Sergeant
- Rate of Misspelling: 32.0%
- Supercede instead of Supersede
- Rate of Misspelling: 25.0%
- Protestor instead of Protester
- Rate of Misspelling: 24.5%
- Milennium/Millenium instead of Millennium
- Rate of Misspelling: 17.8%
- Drunkeness instead of Drunkenness
- Rate of Misspelling: 17.4%
- Bellweather instead of Bellwether
- Rate of Misspelling: 13.3%
- Dumbell instead of Dumbbell
- Rate of Misspelling: 13.3%
How many of these do you spell correctly?!
Source: Word Tips
