Originally Posted by ElizabethN
Originally Posted by puffin
Mine were berefit and segue.


This post just sent me to my dictionary to confirm that "berefit" is not a real word. Funnny real-life example of the problem, though!

I also usually visualize in order to spell. I have many words "tagged" in my brain by their number of letters, too.

Berefit is not a real word until such time as I see fit to poof it into existence through my will.

So, perhaps such a letter combination should be called a "pending word" rather than "not real", as I have the option to create it ex nihilo.

Granted, prior to today, I was unaware of it's non-existence, so it would have not occurred to me to create it.

So, merely by asserting that a word does not yet exist is a simple way to bring that word closer to being a real word.

Kind of like Pinocchio and the Blue Fairy, I suppose.