Super Smart Spellers

In an earlier post, I made a list of spelling words that give me trouble. I had my students do the same, and I think some of their ideas are pretty clever. So, I thought I would share their cleverness with anyone reading this blog. Is anyone really reading this anyway?

Advantageous- ad a man named Van and tag a man named tageous (by Tanner).

Affidavit- I always forget the second f in affidavit. To help remind me most affidavits I sign are for feed, so that always helps me remember the extra f (by Jordan).

Bookkeeper-(s)bookkee-per(son) (by Collin).

Candidate- can-did-ate (by Larkin).

Counterfeit-"e" before "I" way after "c" (by Collin).


Deceitful- I before e except for c. (by Maggie).

Defendant- defend-ant (by Larkin).

Drunkenness-"see" two "nn's" (by Collin).

Drunkenness- is drunken-mess with an n (by Larkin).

Friendliness- Friend-li-ness. (by Maggie).

Laboratory- people in laboratory are "lab rats." (by Collin).

Libraries- think of prairie and and instead of air you can remember ari so you can properly spell libraries (by Tanner).


Occurrence-usually hapens two times or more "cc" and "rr" (by Collin).


Mimicked- Mim-icked. (by Maggie).

Remember-I always try to put in an extra e after the last m in remember. To get over my problem I just say the word very fast to try and forget about adding an e to the word (by Jordan).

Saxophone- Sax-o-phone (by Maggie).

Sophomore- Soph-0-more (by Maggie).

Subpoena- sub-po-ena (by Larkin).

Tomorrow- I always try to put in two M's in tomorrow. Every time I write it now I think about how there is only one day that starts with an M, so then I remember to only put in one M (by Jordan).

Truly- tru-ly (true lie) (by Larkin).

Until- there are two different people one is named un and the other is named til (by Tanner).

Until- I always forget to only put one l on until. The only way I know I have misspelled if it looks right its wrong, but if it looks wrong then it is right (by Jordan).

Vaccinate- To help remind on how to spell vaccinate, I think that you give shots in cc measurements (by Jordan).

Warrior- you should remember war and then when you start the second section of the word you can hear the r in rior so you know that there are two r's in warrior (by Tanner).

Weird-think of a wired and then you should be able to know that you should change the ie to ei (by Tanner).

Happy studying!