The Hardest Word to Spell

I just composed an email containing a word that means “without musical accompaniment”. You know the word…

accapella

Must be two P’s.

acappella

I guess it’s not two L’s.

accappela

What the…? Maybe no doubles at all.

acapela

That does’s even look right.  All doubles?

accappella

Argh.

Oh yeah, there’s sometimes a space in there.  Trying again…

a cappela

Shoot.

a capela

Not even close.

a capella

What is going on?!

At this point, I concluded that my spell-checker also doesn’t know how to spell this word.

For future reference…

It’s a cappella (according to my online dictionary site). And that space… it’s optional.

Oh well, at least I finally figured how to spell ryhthm. I always hated that word too.

I mean rhythm.