According to a recent report, this is the word that Mainers—and people in Maine—are misspelling the most in 2025, and honestly, we can see why.

Honestly, thank goodness for Google—because if we don’t know how to spell something, we can just type in what we think it might be, and boom, nine times out of ten, we’re golden. Unless we completely butcher it…

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That said, how do we even know what folks in Maine are misspelling the most? And how is this kind of information available to us in the first place?

To find Maine’s most misspelled word, the experts at WordUnscrambler.pro analyzed Google Trends data from January 1st to May 19th, 2025, focusing on phrases like ‘How do you spell’ and ‘How to spell.’ They also used Ahrefs to tally up search volumes across 120 different misspelling variations to determine which word Mainers struggled with the most.

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So, with all of that in mind, what’s the supposedly tricky word that Mainers are having the hardest time spelling?

According to Google Trends data, the most misspelled word in Maine is ‘Pneumonia’—and we’re actually the only state in the entire country searching up how to spell it. Meanwhile, across the U.S. as a whole, the words Americans are most commonly looking up are ‘Definitely’ and ‘Separate.’

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And there you have it—Maine’s most misspelled word in 2025 is pneumonia. We’re actually the only state that’s apparently struggling with that one.

What are your thoughts on pneumonia being Maine’s most misspelled word? Did you have another word in mind? We’d love to hear from you—feel free to join the conversation by messaging us on the app!

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