Can you sight some factors that lead people in misspelling words?

One of the most common is people simply confusing one word for another. Like wirting “sight” or “site” when they mean “cite”, four eggs ample.

A primary factor in misspelling, Chuck, is a lack of visual memory.

I was always an excellent speller and couldn’t understand why anyone would not be. Then I had my second son, and no matter what we did, he absolutely could not spell. After much heartache and finally testing, we discovered he was dyslexic. In my reading, I have found that dyslexics have little to no visual memory. If I were asked to visualize any word, I could do it. It is only the words that I cannot visualize which I spell incorrectly. My son (and other dyslexics) rely almost entirely on known spelling rules rather than their visual memory. And the typical array of spelling rules given in schools is short and completely inadequate. Now that we are using a program designed for dyslexics, his spelling has improved. It will always be difficult, but it will be better.

I have found, also, that my compassion for poor spellers has increased to the point where I have reached what I thought impossible – believing that English language spelling makes very little sense and feeling despair for those who have little visual memory. I have learned so much about how it is designed, but am truly shocked at how difficult it is. We learn German in the home and the spelling is incredibly predictable. Not so with English.

Yes. The American rule is that you double the l on words that are stressed on the last syllable– control/controlling, patrol/patrolling; and you do not double the l if the stress is on the first syllable– level/leveling, travel/traveling, model/modeling.