How Missouri’s Spelling Scores Compare to the Rest of the U.S.

Spelling can be hard. The English language can be confusing with some rules applying occasionally to most of the time. You have to mean to spell well to achieve it. It will never be by accident.

I before E except after C and Sometimes Y?

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Elite spellers spend hours learning and memorizing the details of words so as to always be able to spell them correctly. A good speller can usually be found in a good reader, but in the world of social media and as immediate as possible communication, spelling abbreviations and flat misspellings are commonplace. The team at WordUnscrambler.pro crunched the misspelled data.

Each state has its own hang ups and words that continually confound. The word “Beautiful” is the problem word in the most states: Delaware, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming. “Different” is a troublesome word to spell in: Wisconsin, New York, Kansas and Alabama. In Illinois we have trouble with “Congratulations”, in Iowa the struggle word is “Through”.

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Everyone has a word or six that regularly make us doubt we’ve spelled it right – even when we have. Missouri keeps getting “Temperature” wrong.

Definitely struggle with this word occasionally

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As a nation we spell many things wrong. Not just the above, but based on misspelled google searches the top five are: Definitely, Separate, Necessary, Believe and Through. This is why we love spellcheck, and why we fight with auto-correct. Don’t even get me started on mispronunciations. That’s a topic for another time. Salutations.