Top 10 Mispronounced Words
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I've heard "jewelry" mispronounced more as "jew-ler-ee" than anything else.
quinoa is a superfood unless you have gout 🙁
I'm surprised perfume didn't make it on the list
13:33 you pronounced bruccheta as "brusheta". Originally "bruketa"
How tf do you pronounce jalapeño as jalapeno
another one is anti-climactic, when a lot of people say anti-climatic
had no idea how to pronounce quinoa!
Number 21: "Flounder" – instead of "Founder." I hate that. A flounder is a fish damn it!
I've never heard anyone say "foilage"…
Well in my language we say just "presso" 😀
Seriously? No dashound instead of dachshund? Not even as an honourable mention?! They even had a dachshund in the video!!
Hawaii is another example..
Commonly Pronounced: Huh-wai
Correct Pronunciation: Huh-vuh-ee
Well, I guess that's just how Hawaiians say it. Sometimes they'd pronounce 'w' as 'v'. I don't think it really matters though, just say it how you want to say it 🙂
It's spelled "aluminum"…not "aluminium". It's pronounced uh-LOO-mih-num…NOT al-yu-MIN-ee-um…drives me bonkers!
ok whoever pronouces nuclear "nuccular" needs to get their eyes gouged out, replaced with new ones, and go back to kindergarten. Such idiocy. I mean, I'm not even an english speaker but if I can say some english words better than you, you might as well dig yourself a hole in the ground.
I'd love to see you guys do a video on misused words. "Jealous" and "disinterested" should be 1 and 2. Stop using "jealous" when you mean "envious" people! And disinterested and uninterested mean completely different things! They're NOT synonymous, disinterested means impartial.
Ramen should be number 1. Most people I've heard pronounce it 'ray-men' instead of 'raw-men'.
She mispronounces "metathesis" in a video on how to pronounce words. Irony delivered.
The single most mispronounced word I hear from everyone, literally everyone, on a daily basis is especially. I don't even have to say how it's mispronounced because everyone already does it. There is no c in the word!
+realleyla
Et Cetera is NOT pronounced "Eck Settera". There is NO "k" sound in there. Drives me crazy
You guys forgot across
People always add a t to the end if it's and say acrosst. THERE IS NO T IN ACROSS. It's my biggest pet peeve.
English is fucked up
I thought "Mauve" was prenounced the way we do in French
My sister pronounce it "Axe" instead of "Ask".
"M-I-S"
"Keep going."
"Oh!"
"Was that an 'O'?"
Best line ever
People saying/asking why was pronunciation not included? I mean, It's a pretty common example when talking about this topic. And they've been saying/writing it in the video so you should just go figure. There are far more words that should be included in but they make the decisions so. You guys gotta stop being all political and shit
Ja-lap-i-no LMFAO DHJDKFK
Where's pregnant?
Uhh how about escape being constantly mispronounced excape? This is the worst one, in my opinion, as I hear it almost daily. It drives me insane.
Dumbest video ever
libary instead of library
pronouncing the t in sorbet
legit (laygit or la-git not lee-git)
schedule (shedule insted of skedule)
and one made by myslf:
Tucson (Tuckon instead of Too-Sahn)
i'm not a native speakeer, so…
So cringeworthy, I pronounce these correctly and people always say I say it wrong, I knew I was right.
the "e" in "bruschetta" is pronounced as the "e" in "empty", not the "a" in "arrow"
I didn't get the "ax/ask" joke. Can a racist explain it to me? Thanks.
ROTFL. Here in France every teacher or parents will tell you that learning english is easy. Well, compared to French, it's easier… at first sight. BUT, then you'll learn by yourself that you've been tought the english-english, wich can be very different to the american-english. Thankfully I was alone on the road that day, but I jumped on the brake when I saw the roadsign "DO NOT PASS" (I was in Texas and knew that Texans shoot first then ask questions. It doesn't mean "NO Trespassing", but "Overtake forbidden".
WHile writing on a forum I used the word "sentence" as "phrase". "Phrase" is the exact same word in french that's why it did not occured to me it could be used in american english. Another guy asked me if I though I was in court. 😀
Later, while taking course of english, the teatchers showed me a paper with phrases/sentences. It looked easy until I discover that "wound" (like in spooned) meant injuries and wound (like in sound) is the past tense of the verb “wind”.
As if this was still easy, now many words have many pronouciation. Tomato/tom-ay-to, neither/nay-zer… LOL.
BTW thanks Mojo I like your videos and I mostly understand everything you said. Thumbs up!
What about uranus
Some of those common mispronounced words made me cringe and English is not even my first language. So bad.
People who pronounce grenade like "gurnade." It's gre, not gur.
Also, barely anyone actually enunciates the word "important" properly, by that I mean actually saying EVERY "T" in word, not like "im-por-int" that you hear commonly.