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No other states from the Unscramblerer.com analysis list that word at the top of their respective most misspelled list.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, \u201cbougie\u201d \u2014 that popular slang word for being high-class or overly concerned with wealth and status \u2014 sits atop the national catalog.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s America\u2019s most misspelled word top 10 list:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Bougie<\/li>\n<li>Favorite<\/li>\n<li>Through<\/li>\n<li>Business<\/li>\n<li>Tomorrow<\/li>\n<li>Because<\/li>\n<li>Definitely<\/li>\n<li>Beautiful<\/li>\n<li>Niece<\/li>\n<li>Separate<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>What spellings perplex Utahns?<\/h3>\n<p>Utah spellers, meanwhile, apparently aren\u2019t flummoxed by \u201cbougie.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t crack the Beehive State\u2019s Top 10 misspelled word list:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Basically<\/li>\n<li>Because<\/li>\n<li>Favorite<\/li>\n<li>Through<\/li>\n<li>Business<\/li>\n<li>Gorgeous<\/li>\n<li>Machine<\/li>\n<li>Resources<\/li>\n<li>Character<\/li>\n<li>Beautiful<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>An Unscramblerer.com spokesperson noted its 2026 misspelled words analysis is a reminder that English spelling and pronunciations are often irregular. And common words such as \u201cthrough\u201d and \u201ccharacter\u201d contain silent letters \u2014 while others contain double consonants, such as \u201cbusiness\u201d and \u201cnecessary\u201d and, yes, \u201cbasically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s a \u201cspell-it-right\u201d warning\/advice from the word tool\u2019s website: \u201cStudies show that reliance on autocorrect and AI deteriorates the authors\u2019 spelling ability over time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo combat this digital amnesia, we encourage everybody to search for the correct spelling of the word when a feeling of doubt arises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=341\">Opinion: Eric Church\u2019s commencement speech worked because it rejected performance<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Don\u2019t ask Minnesotans to spell \u2018ukulele\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>While \u201cbasically\u201d is the word reportedly most likely to trip up Utah spellers, a curious list of \u201cmost misspelled words\u201d are found atop other states, according to Unscramblerer.com.<\/p>\n<p>Both Georgia and Wyoming spellers struggle with \u201cchihuahua,\u201d while neighboring North Carolina and Virginia find \u201cspaghetti\u201d a tough spell.<\/p>\n<p>Several states \u2014 Alabama, Maryland, Mississippi and Wisconsin \u2014 are most vexed by \u201cbusiness,\u201d while Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Vermont and West Virginia all reportedly struggle spelling \u201cbeautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And the most misspelled word in Minnesota? \u201cUkulele.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Can you use \u2018eclaircissement\u2019 in the form of a sentence? <\/h3>\n<p>May has become synonymous with spelling, with the annual nationally televised Scripps National Spelling Bee held this year on May 26-27, in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 250 spellers from around the United States and several other countries have advanced through regional spelling bees to compete in next week\u2019s \u201cScripps\u201d \u2014 the Super Bowl of spelling bees.<\/p>\n<p>Four Utah kids, according to the competition website, will vie for the national spelling title: Park City\u2019s Wesley Kenlon, Price\u2019s Ashley Bryner, and, from Salt Lake City, Roshan Kaushik and Ray Mishra.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, 13-year-old Faizan Zaki claimed the Scripps spelling bee crown after correctly spelling \u201ceclaircissement\u201d \u2014 a word of French origin that means enlightenment, or the clearing up of something obscure.<\/p>\n<p>And it really does pay to enrich your word power. The Dallas, Texas, teen pocketed $50,000 for winning the spelling event.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=339\">How 4 Latter-day Saint young single adults live and share their faith through Banana Ball<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBougie,\u201d \u201cBeautiful,\u201d and \u201cSeparate\u201d are counted among words most likely to prompt autocorrect into action<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Checking autocorrect to spell \u2018bougie\u2019 or \u2018ukulele\u2019? 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