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Hard to Spell Places Quiz

The places shown below are not spelled correctly. Guess the correct spellings!
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Last updated: December 13, 2019
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First submittedNovember 21, 2011
Times taken52,182
Average score71.4%
Rating4.40
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Mediteranian
Mediterranean
Phillipines
Philippines
Pittsberg
Pittsburgh
Conneticut
Connecticut
Arkansaw
Arkansas
Tagucegulpa
Tegucigalpa
Lubjana
Ljubljana
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Correct
Raykiavick
Reykjavik
Kirgistan
Kyrgyzstan
Khazackstan
Kazakhstan
Carribean
Caribbean
Lichenstien
Liechtenstein
Minneappelis
Minneapolis
Ottowa
Ottawa
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Las Angelous
Los Angeles
Massechussets
Massachusetts
Tuscon
Tucson
Cincinatti
Cincinnati
Albacurkey
Albuquerque
Ajerbazian
Azerbaijan
Johanesberg
Johannesburg
nettybet
+2
Level 75
Jul 20, 2014
Only got Albuquerque wrong
camus
+1
Level 78
Jul 20, 2014
Easy to me becuase I read those names far more often than I hear them. But I didn't know Honduras' capital, and I don't know if I'll remember that name.
Janjan
+2
Level 67
Jun 20, 2015
Shame you can't spell 'because' then! Haha
dasims45
+1
Level 81
Jul 20, 2014
I remembered how to spell the first part of "Albuquerque" thanks to Weird Al Yankovic.
ColoHarpare
+5
Level 50
Jul 20, 2014
Wow...not a single comment insisting that alternate spellings be allowed!
CrayCray
+5
Level 67
Jul 20, 2014
Got all but Tegucigalpa as I've never heard of it before. I'm laughing at the fact that only 41% of people got Ljubljana right (since it's the capital of my home country). But wtf is up with Los Angeles being on the list? That's not hard to spell at all, haha.
camus
+1
Level 78
Jul 20, 2014
I guess Quizmaster wanted to know if there are any people at all who can't spell Los Angeles. And here they are, 6%!
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Aug 1, 2019
Maybe they didnt know what was meant, because that spelling is not even close. And just skipped it.
AdyXD
+1
Level 24
Jul 21, 2014
22/22 with 0:01 left
Terradraconum
+1
Level 33
Jul 21, 2014
Missed Tucson. Thanks to auto-correct I got Mediterranean. Other than those I got them all right. :)
mvpenner
+4
Level 81
Feb 9, 2015
Saskatchewan?
JonOfKent
+1
Level 56
Jan 25, 2021
FTW!
beccimoo
+1
Level 56
Apr 5, 2015
Wow. I do the countries of the world quiz quite a lot. It's only after doing this that I see how lenient that quiz with spelling!
TenThousand
+3
Level 76
Apr 5, 2015
Accept type-ins?
greenlion31
+1
Level 52
Jul 5, 2016
shoulda taken a left at albuquerque
Matthew07
+1
Level 47
Nov 20, 2016
Type ins please
Yamaneko
+1
Level 73
Dec 4, 2016
I'm still clueless about the struggle for American people to spell Albuquerque. Even with very basic Spanish knowledge, it's not that hard to guess that there is no other way to spell it without messing up the entire pronunciation.
Jarl5
+2
Level 68
Jun 19, 2017
I always thought it was albuRquerque, never got anything else wrong.
Sifhraven
+2
Level 67
Aug 1, 2019
It is... the spanish town is called albuRquerque. It is where albuquerque ( without r) in america takes its name from. (well via a person technically, the duke of Alburquerque, before people comment on that ;) )

No idea when in history the american city lost its r, if it was pretty early on or not.(either way, cant have been much more than 300 years ago ;)

kenpo17
+1
Level 66
Mar 1, 2019
Lots of Americans don't bother to care about spelling anything correctly anymore.
InterAlia
+1
Level 75
Apr 4, 2023
That might be true. And as annoying as it may be for those of us who grew up and excelled within a certain kind of educational context where that was emphasized, in rational terms it isn't actually important for people to be excellent spellers--not anymore at least. We have software for that. It's like bothering to memorize the encyclopedia. If it interests you, fine, but plain facts will always be available to find when you need them. You don't need to store them all in your brain. In any case, you are going to run into a practical limit, so why not apply that effort to something more useful or more rewarding.
DorkmeisterBlu
+2
Level 72
Dec 5, 2016
Honestly, Tucson was the hardest.
Komashura
+2
Level 45
Dec 5, 2016
Please accept type-ins.

jk lol

HenryFails4
+1
Level 35
Feb 4, 2017
I tried Bjulbjana, whoops
Quizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
+1
Level 70
Feb 16, 2017
This would have been harder if I couldn't spell it the same way and right click on it to get the right spelling. Kinda cheating but not really.
ander217
+2
Level 75
Apr 15, 2017
Yes, really.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Aug 1, 2019
what do you mean not really? I very curious how your mind works, cause I honestly cant see how you would think that. It is like saying during an exam I looked at/copied the answers of the guy next to me, kinda cheating but not really..
geographyisthebestsubject
+1
Level 61
Apr 7, 2017
I have lived in Delaware my whole life and had no clue that's how you spelled Pittsburgh.
FatSpartanJediLlama
+2
Level 67
May 18, 2017
Tegucigalpa was super easy for me because, in Spanish, words are usually spelled the way they sound.
Jarl5
+1
Level 68
Jun 19, 2017
It's pronounced Tey-goose-e-gal-pa right?
divantilya
+1
Level 37
Dec 4, 2018
^ Tegucigalpa: (Te goose si galpa).
barmanitan
+1
Level 78
Mar 23, 2020
Are you being serious? You do know that the pronunciation was a joke? Or was your comment also a joke...
JonOfKent
+1
Level 56
Jan 25, 2021
Well I thought it was pronounced tech-oo-key-ghee-you-know-that-place-in-Nicaragua-or-Guatemala-or-wherever

I may have spelt that wrong though.

Kenneth3748
+1
Level 53
Apr 27, 2022
Honduras the capital
Jarl5
+1
Level 68
Jun 19, 2017
Both my home state and favorite place (CT and Tucson) are on this quiz and it always annoys me when people spell them wrong, but I guess anyone could say that about the places they live.
turtlemcturtle
+1
Level 50
Aug 23, 2017
I'm Australian and I have always thought Arkansaw was a city and Arkansas was a place! Never occurred to me that Arkansas was pronounced ar-kan-sawr
Pharley
+1
Level 73
Jun 2, 2018
It's not. It's ar-kan-saw
DrIlluminati123
+1
Level 33
Sep 28, 2017
I cheated by trying to spell the word, then right clicking for the spell check.
ruftytufty
+2
Level 79
Aug 26, 2018
No space for Ynysybwl?
Gassu
+6
Level 70
Dec 4, 2018
Where is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?
kenpo17
+1
Level 66
Mar 1, 2019
Oops, posted the same thing below and I didn't notice you'd beaten me to it!
WillemLAif
+1
Level 76
Sep 12, 2018
On some travel sites, people seem to have a lot of difficulty spelling Farao Islands, Heidelburg, Nurmburg and Assburger... or was that a decease? Anyway...
violinbebe
+1
Level 44
Oct 19, 2018
Dude i just typed in what the word was and used autocorrect
JWatson24
+1
Level 71
Oct 19, 2018
Who else here thinks that Arkansas should be pronounced the same way Kansas is pronounced?
divantilya
+1
Level 37
Dec 4, 2018
^ I do! - I have always pronounced it Ar-kan-sas, until I heard an American pronounce it. At first I thought it might have been a Native American tribe I'd never heard of). But then I asked her to spell it for me. Lo and behold: It's "Arkansaw"!
SirPhilippines
+1
Level 65
Jul 1, 2023
Arkansas: Kansas’ communist half brother.
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 89
Dec 4, 2018
Preemptive text when you use JetPunk a lot makes this pretty straightforward ;)
Karamchand
+1
Level 49
Dec 4, 2018
How can people get Reykjavik and Kyrgyzstan right and then miss Tegucigalpa? Thats unpossible!
kenpo17
+1
Level 66
Mar 1, 2019
I had to Google that to even know what it was.
GeographyGeek42
+1
Level 66
Mar 1, 2019
Nothing is Unpossible...
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Jan 28, 2020
Because Reykjavik and Kyrgyzstan are rather easy to spell and Tegucigulpa is not really well known.
Kenneth3748
+1
Level 53
Apr 27, 2022
because reykjavik and kyrgyzstan are well known and much easier to spell than tegucigalpa(capital of Honduras).
Kaz60
+1
Level 49
Jan 30, 2019
16/21. Happy with that
kenpo17
+5
Level 66
Mar 1, 2019
How about Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch? XD
GeographyGeek42
+3
Level 66
Mar 1, 2019
Or maybe Taumatawhakatangi­hangakoauauotamatea­turipukakapikimaunga­horonukupokaiwhen­uakitanatahu, Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg and Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein.
Sifhraven
+2
Level 67
Aug 1, 2019
Hah I can read the last one, I am assuming it is afrikaans ( I am dutch) And it says twobuffaloswithoneshottotallydeadshotfountain. Or: two buffalos shot totally dead with one shot-fountain. (geskiet is the verb here and skoot is the noun shot. so not as in the translation, but the other way around)

Morsdood is a tricky one to translate. You have dead, and very/extremely dead, it is used to emphasize. "as dead as can be" sort of does it I guess.

Bdubz
+1
Level 43
May 30, 2019
Have you seen the clip from the British game show The Chase? Look it up if you haven't
ElenaAlbers
+1
Level 73
Mar 1, 2019
Wtf I always thought it was Conneticut
Kenneth3748
+1
Level 53
Apr 27, 2022
think of it as connect- i- cut
Bdubz
+1
Level 43
May 30, 2019
Too easy
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Aug 1, 2019
Omg ... why did I click this haha, I am bad at "places" that arent countries, let alone being able to spell them..

Well.... here goes nothing.

Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Aug 1, 2019
wow, only missed two !! albuquerque and the one I have never heard of, the lowest one :)

tucson was a surprise, easy though, not that many options.

The los angeles is a joke though, who would write it like that?? san francisco ok, I would get people writing fransisco because of the s sound. But I never heard of people misspelling los angeles, and if they would, I would think los angelos

Hollywood
+1
Level 62
Aug 2, 2019
Las Angelous? Lol I was waiting for Noo Yorc to come up after that
blizzrd33
+2
Level 79
Nov 14, 2019
One of the problems with accepting type-ins of incorrect spellings is that until this quiz I didn't realise what the correct spelling of Cincinnati was. Until today I'd used the incorrect spelling shown in this quiz, which is accepted on most quizzes around here.
Hotdogboy
+1
Level 18
Nov 14, 2019
I'm American so the only ones I got correct are the states
DolphinSus
+1
Level 28
Jun 16, 2021
I’m American and I got way more than just the states
Kenneth3748
+1
Level 53
Apr 27, 2022
A lot more americans than people think can nail most of these like me. But honestly americans usually do better at geography then most of the world they just choose stupid people or "paid actors" for those videos.
valius
+1
Level 33
Apr 19, 2020
Anyone else use auto correct Lmao
okayaiden
+2
Level 25
Apr 25, 2020
What about Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu? I don’t think many people spell that correctly
QRU
+2
Level 74
Nov 26, 2020
I always spell it Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotatameaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, I don't know why :(
AyBrains
+2
Level 37
May 11, 2020
Here is a tip for you guys to spell "Ljubljana." Because most Eastern European languages have silent j's, I pronounce it "Leeyubleeyana" to remember where the j's are in placement of the y's. Hope this helped
peardestroyer
+1
Level 56
Dec 19, 2021
"LaJubeLaJana" is my pronunciation go-to when spelling Ljubljana.
TheRealGrantma
+1
Level 56
Jul 26, 2020
100% in 70 seconds
mapgeek
+1
Level 63
Aug 31, 2020
I didn't know I was spelling these wrong until I did this quiz.
morcaca
+3
Level 59
Sep 17, 2020
Saskatchewan is annoyingly hard to spell. Sasketchewan? Saskatchuwan? Sasketchuwan? Who knows?
TheBerryLegend
+1
Level 51
Dec 1, 2020
You should add Ouagadougou
gkmaster
+1
Level 37
Dec 10, 2020
You should also add Venuezela
Kenneth3748
+1
Level 53
Apr 27, 2022
venezuela isnt difficult for most people
EcceHomo
+1
Level 79
Jan 14, 2021
Typed all of these names so many times it's almost muscle memory now.
JonOfKent
+1
Level 56
Jan 25, 2021
We can just all be glad we don't have to be able to spell TADCHIKISCHE like the Germans do
LuigiDood227
+1
Level 64
Jan 26, 2021
Totally didn't just use autocorrect :P
cafrance1089
+2
Level 66
Apr 5, 2021
Great quiz! You should add Eyjafjallajokull as an extra challenge.
DolphinSus
+1
Level 28
Jun 16, 2021
I Honestly always spelled Philippines- Phillipines
jf15
+1
Level 63
Jan 27, 2022
Never heard of Tegucigalpa. Couldn't remember where the second "l" went in Ljubljana. Got the rest.
ZeldaQuizzer
+1
Level 57
Feb 4, 2022
Thank goodness for type-ins.
Kenneth3748
+1
Level 53
Apr 27, 2022
Some of these arent ever hard to spell but the others I can see why. But if you want make it actually possible for people whove never heard of some of these places spell them how a normal person would. Like arkansaw? or kirgistan?
ShievaAndGolly
+1
Level 56
May 19, 2022
I think "Kyrgzstan" would be a better misspelling.
ShievaAndGolly
+1
Level 56
May 19, 2022
I think "Kyrgzstan" would be a better misspelling.
Tadeu
+1
Level 58
Sep 24, 2022
Since when Los Angeles and Ottawa are hard to spell? Weird
Speed4TheNeed
+1
Level 87
Jan 29, 2023
I agree. Except that I never knew it was OttAwa before today...fortunately my Canodian friends are the forgiving type ;)
BOJET
+2
Level 93
Oct 16, 2022
ouagoudougoug
naginisnake42
+1
Level 36
Mar 20, 2023
100%. This was easy for me. Then again, I'm amazing at spelling. I really liked this quiz.

5/5 stars

NEGeo
+1
Level 57
Mar 24, 2023
Our friends at Sporcle should know how to spell kyrgyzstan!
SirPhilippines
+1
Level 65
Jul 1, 2023
you dare utter them “friends”?
KennethTAA
+1
Level 61
Mar 29, 2023
Way too easy, if you put Visakhapatnam on there, then it mightve been more of a challenge for some people.
EcceHomo
+1
Level 79
Apr 3, 2023
Ouagadougou, Yamoussoukro, Bandar Seri Begawan, Naypyidaw, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Nizhny Novgorod, Verkhoyansk.
Maxibon
+1
Level 65
Apr 11, 2023
You already know that some people just copied the bad names and used auto correct. Good quiz!
RJG
+1
Level 60
May 19, 2023
21/21, was stuck on Pittsburgh for ages, forgot there's a h on the end.
Nevson64
+1
Level 50
Nov 20, 2023
sick of these quizzes with such a US-leaning bias. No one's heard of the New Mexico and Utah cities that don't live in the USA
FrederickTheMan
+1
Level 50
Dec 14, 2023
you can just type what is shown then use auto correct
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