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Misspellings don't just happen in the classroom. Recently, GrubHub, an online food delivery service, revealed the top ten misspellings its customers used when placing an order. Number four on the list, misspelled 10% of the time, was the word “dessert.”

Dessert is the final course of a meal and is usually sweet like cake, pie, or ice cream.

 

Desert (with one ‘s’) is an area that lacks water.

 

Here are some ways to remember how to spell these similar words.

• You always want a second helping of dessert.
• Dessert is twice as good as the desert.
• Strawberry Shortcake = dessert and Sahara = desert

See what other words made GrubHub's list here!