Regrettable and Sometimes Creative Spelling Fails

Eric Lund

Nov 30, 2021 10:00 AM EST

No one is born good at spelling. It's a skill, and it takes time to cultivate your own vocabulary — there is a reason people have to go to school for such a long time growing up. Nobody said learning to spell well was easy! To prove it, we have curated a whole collection of times people prove how long we still have to go to get everyone on the same page, literacy-wise. It's wild to think about for people who spend their professional days with words, but plenty of people out there could really use a refresher course on spelling.

From the dad who doesn't know how to spell 'chipmunk,' to the person who seems to have mistaken the word 'cemetery' for 'symmetry,' these awful attempts at spelling are going to make you wonder how some people even made it out of high school in the first place.

The world has much more than its fair share of dumb and creative spelling fails lurking about. It's one big party full of regrettable and dumb spelling fails.