What are the misspellings for indelible commonly happen?

[juz4joke]

please tell me What are the misspellings for indelible commonly happen?

 

[emsr2d2]

Please tell me what [STRIKE]are[/STRIKE] the common misspellings [STRIKE]for[/STRIKE] of "indelible" are. [STRIKE]commonly happen?[/STRIKE]

Hello and welcome to the forum. I have made some amendments to your post above. For future reference, when posting in this forum, please follow the basic rules of written English:

- Start every sentence with a capital letter
- End every sentence with the relevant punctuation mark (full stop, question mark or exclamation mark).
- Always capitalise the word "I" (first person singular).
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To answer your question, I imagine that the word is probably misspelt as:

- indellible
- indelable
- indellable

I would like to say that I don't think I've ever seen the word misspelt but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

 

[Rover_KE]

I'd like to know why you're asking this question, juz4joke.

We're more accustomed to correcting misspellings than providing them.

Rover

 

[konungursvia]

I don't see how you could have common misspellings for uncommon words.

 

[Barb_D]

I think any word ending in ible will have able as a common misspelling.

 

[konungursvia]

I guess that kind of misspelling could be relatively common, compared to other errors, but "long story short" this wouldn't make a list of commonly misspelt words of the kind our poor students seem to want to study.

 

[Barb_D]

My problem would be that I'd end up saying "So, this is one of those common misspellings. So it's -ible, and I tend to write -able. Or wait... is it -able and I tend to write -ible? Darn - which is the right one, and which is the way I always used to mess it up? They both look right. Now, they both look wrong! ARGHHH!"

 

[konungursvia]

That happens to me too, with east and west. As a kid, I got them intuitively backwards, as I imagined them alphabetically, E before W, reading left to right. But the thing is, I knew I was backwards, so I'd picture them "my way" and then immediately switch them, knowing I'd then be right in what I was saying.

Unfortunately, then I started getting them right by rote. But I still had the habit of switching to correct myself. Nowadays, I always take 3/4 of a second to decide which is which, but only because of this history of taking what I remembered and reversing them.

Same with -ible and -able, once in a while, but what really gets me is -ent and -ant, especially since I"m often writing only in French for 3 or 4 months at a time, and then their spellings look awfully correct, e.g. 'indépendant".

I must be tired, I'm going on and on.

 

[Rover_KE]

I'll always be grateful to my old geography teacher, who pointed out that WE is an actual word, whilst EW isn't.

Rover

 

[emsr2d2]

I still have to start at the top with my finger and move round clockwise while reciting "Never Eat Shredded Wheat".

 

[BobK]

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To answer your question, I imagine that the word is probably misspelt as:

- indellible
- indelable
- indellable

I would like to say that I don't think I've ever seen the word misspelt but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

:up: There's also inedible, but that's a typo more than a simple misspelling. I'd guess that the '-ellable-' one is the most likely*, but I wouldn't say it's common.

b

*OneLook finds 18 '-ellable' possibilities (Words that match the pattern "*ellable" - OneLook Dictionary Search ), 16 'elable' ones ( Words that match the pattern "*elable" - OneLook Dictionary Search ), only 3 '-elible' ones ( Words that match the pattern "*elible" - OneLook Dictionary Search ), and none at all for '-ellible (Words that match the pattern "*ellible" - OneLook Dictionary Search ) . So if a misspelling is to be supported by accurately spelt analogies, my money's on 'indellable'!

 

[BobK]

I'll always be grateful to my old geography teacher, who pointed out that WE is an actual word, whilst EW isn't.

Rover

But I gather that in some parts of the world (no names, but here's a clue:'Go West, young man'/ 'Ew, we're always going West, all my friends go East. Why can't we go East for once?') it's an accepted spelling for 'ugh' or 'eugh' or 'yuck'.

b

 

[BobSmith]

I'll always be grateful to my old geography teacher, who pointed out that WE is an actual word, whilst EW isn't.

Your teacher hates Australia!

 

[emsr2d2]

But I gather that in some parts of the world (no names, but here's a clue:'Go West, young man'/ 'Ew, we're always going West, all my friends go East. Why can't we go East for once?') it's an accepted spelling for 'ugh' or 'eugh' or 'yuck'.

b

I have to admit to using "Ewww" when expressing disgust in writing! But never simply "Ew".