The Most Common Words That People Don't Know How To Spell In Every State
In honor of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Tuesday, Google Trends mapped out the "most misspelled words" in each of the 50 states. More accurately, this map shows the word that residents of each state Google along with the phrase "how to spell" most frequently, indicating that they're confused about how it's spelled.
No state comes out looking great, but some states fare better than others. Words like "chaos," "pneumonia" and "diarrhea" aren't spelled phonetically, so it's understandable that people might need help figuring out how to write them out (though we're a bit worried about the gastrointestinal health of our friends in New Hampshire). But we're having trouble imagining what a possible alternate spelling might be for "nanny." Or "banana." Or "twelve."
But let's not be too hard on ourselves, because nobody's perfect. Even Google Trends originally misspelled "ninety" on the first version of the map it tweeted out.
Spelling is hard for everyone sometimes.