Why does everybody make mistakes with 'lose' and 'loose'?

Answer 1

everybody doesn't. some of us took english in school

Answer 2

because the vowel makes the same sound in both words. People forget that the doubled vowel modifies the sound of the s that follows it, but the vowel itself is pronounced the same. It's unlike the other pair of words that people make the same mistake with- choose and chose- where the double vowel is pronounced differently from the single vowel.

Answer 3

At first I thought it's probably a typo. It happens. But I see that same mistake, as well as others, too frequently to just pass it off as a mistyped word. Others I've noticed are 'to' and 'too', as well as 'your' and 'you're'.

I don't know why some misspellings are more common than others. Perhaps it's a visual thing.

Answer 4

I honestly have no idea.
I, however, have never had that problem.

But my boyfriend does.
He can't really spell all that well.
So I constantly have to go over his stuff and fix it for him. O_o

My guess is because the words are spelled exactly the same, with only one extra "O" to make them different.

Answer 5

The vowel's sound seems to be so similar that most people get confused with these words.
But it does'nt make much of a difference to me.
LOSEr's LOOSE friends.

Answer 6

It's a synonym. Sounds the same but means different things.

Answer 7

because the spelling of these two words is partially similar.

Answer 8

Maybe they have lost it due to a loose screw :)

Answer 9

because both sounds like a rhyme.

Answer 10

THEY FEEL IT LOOSE SO THEY CANT HOLD IT TIGHT.THUS THEY LOSE.