An analysis of Google search data from the first five months of the year revealed the “most misspelled” words include “favorite” and “niece.” File Photo by Erik S. Lesser/EPA
May 21 (UPI) — An analysis of Google search data from the first five months of the year revealed the “most misspelled” words in America include “favorite,” “through” and “niece.”
Website Unscramblerer.com conducted an analysis of Google search data from Jan. 1 through May 18. The researchers used search data from Google Trends for “How do you spell” and “How to spell” and then used marketing and SEO platform Ahrefs to find the number of searches for each inquiry.
The analysis found the most-searched word was “bougie,” followed by “favorite,” “through,” “business,” “tomorrow,” “because,” “definitely,” “beautiful,” “niece” and “separate.”
The researchers also looked at the most misspelled word for each individual state, and discovered some of the words did not make the overall top 10.
Examples include “school” for Florida, “color” for Colorado, “Chihuahua” for Georgia, “restaurant” for Louisiana, “spaghetti” for North Carolina and Virginia, “ukulele” for Minnesota, “diamond” for Oregon and “recycle” for Texas.
The research was released ahead of the National Spelling Bee, which will be held May 26-28.
“Studies show that reliance on autocorrect and AI deteriorates the authors spelling ability over time,” an Unscramblerer.com spokesperson said. “To combat this digital amnesia we encourage everybody to search for the correct spelling of the word when a feeling of doubt arises. This becomes an educational moment. As the saying goes, use it or lose it.”
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