the buzz log
Everyone has certain words they struggle to spell correctly. When it comes to spelling, we're not perfect—you can count on us to occasionally botch recieve (sic), accomodations (sic), and relavant (sic). With the Scripps National Spelling Bee on the horizon, we figured it was a perfect time to come clean about our erroneous ways.
The superb spellers at the Bee will rake in even more Buzz this year with the finals being televised in prime time on ABC. Searches on "spelling bee" have doubled over the last week and we've seen related search spikes on "national spelling bee," "spelling words," and "commonly misspelled words."
What are the common words that vex our searchers? We applied our best spell checking skills to the data and came up with this list of the top 20 misspelled words in Search...
- Wallmart (Wal-Mart)
- Rachel Ray (Rachael Ray)
- Amtrack (Amtrak)
- Hillary Duff (Hilary Duff)
- Katherine McPhee (Katharine McPhee)
- Britany Spears (Britney Spears)
- Geneology (Genealogy)
- Jaime Pressley (Jaime Pressly)
- Volkswagon (Volkswagen)
- Wikepedia (Wikipedia)
- William Sonoma (Williams-Sonoma)
- Tatoo (Tattoo)
- Travelosity (Travelocity)
- Elliot Yamin (Elliott Yamin)
- Kiera Knightley (Keira Knightley)
- Kelly Pickler (Kellie Pickler)
- Brittney Spears (Britney Spears)
- Avril Lavinge (Avril Lavigne)
- Rianna (Rihanna)
- Jordan Sparks (Jordin Sparks)
What words give you the most trouble? We'd love to know. Leave us a coment beelow...
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what's the buzz?
A subject's buzz score is the percentage of Yahoo! users searching for that subject on a given day, multiplied by a constant to make the number easier to read. Weekly leaders are the subjects with the greatest average buzz score for a given week.
For more detailed information, visit our FAQ.
comments
Posted by tsbudman | Wed, May 23, 2007, 8:05 pm PDT
13 are names
5 are Companies
Only 2 are words that would ever be involved in a spelling bee.
Nice List
Posted by capexguy | Wed, May 23, 2007, 8:20 pm PDT
Since so many of those 'words' you mentioned are proper nouns, with peculiar spellings, it's no wonder they made your computer-generated list. Tell Britney Spears and Jordin Sparks to spell their names right.
Posted by lazywolf2 | Wed, May 23, 2007, 11:02 pm PDT
hoo kairs enyway...
Posted by darrenernest | Thu, May 24, 2007, 8:55 am PDT
i found the williams sonoma one very interesting, as many people also say Barnes & Nobles when it is only Barnes & Noble without the s. Funny they add an s for WS, but take it off for BN.
Posted by kdm1594 | Thu, May 24, 2007, 1:46 pm PDT
I can't spell Wensday. or Febuary.
Posted by ttusar | Thu, May 24, 2007, 2:00 pm PDT
when i want to type members 90% of the time comes out as memebers
Posted by lazywolf2 | Thu, May 24, 2007, 7:02 pm PDT
EYE WOOD LYKE 2 BEEE INN E SPELING BEE@
Posted by shoestolive | Fri, May 25, 2007, 2:04 am PDT
michelle pfeiffer! or pffeifer?
Posted by shoestolive | Fri, May 25, 2007, 2:04 am PDT
michelle pfeiffer! or pffeifer?
Posted by oldpanther | Fri, May 25, 2007, 2:06 am PDT
wow why does Brit get to be on there twice?
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