These are the most misspelled words in the US, search data shows

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Published  May 28, 2026 4:58 PM MST
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The Brief

    • Unscramblerer, a website that unscrambles letters for games such as Scrabble and Words with Friends, found the top 10 most misspelled words in the U.S.
    • Unscramblerer collected Google search data from Jan. 1, 2026, to May 18, 2026, for "how do you spell" and "how to spell."

Spelling can be difficult, especially when it comes to certain words – you know the ones. 

Unscramblerer, an online website that unscrambles words for games such as Scrabble, Words with Friends, etc., collected Google data from this year so far to find out which words were the most misspelled in the United States.

Here are the top 10 most misspelled words in the U.S.

  1. Bougie (134,000 searches)
  2. Favorite (128,400 searches)
  3. Through (127,200 searches)
  4. Business (123,600 searches)
  5. Tomorrow (121,200 searches)
  6. Because (106,800 searches)
  7. Definitely (104,400 searches)
  8. Beautiful (102,000 searches)
  9. Niece (100,800 searches)
  10. Separate (98,400 searches)

These are the most misspelled words by state:

The Source: Information for this article was taken from an email sent by Unscramblerer based on search data from Google from Jan. 1, 2026 to May 18, 2026. This story was reported from San Jose. 

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