Chatting with someone who can’t spell even the basic words can be a chore.
The worst part is when you try to correct them, and they still take offence from it.
Well, if you want to roast someone who can’t spell, there are sleek ways to do it.
I know that the phrase, “I bet you write in emoji because letters are too hard” is a popular one. So, we won’t start with those already tasteless punchlines.
In the rest of this article, you will learn different ways or things you can say to utterly roast someone who struggles to spell, especially when chatting.
Our Top Favourite Roasts for Someone That Can’t Spell
1. Autocorrect is crying for a vacation.
“Autocorrect is crying for a vacation” sounds creative, which makes it a witty way to roast someone who can’t spell.
This is because that kind of people often rely on their keypad’s autocorrect function to help them spell things right when texting others.
So, unlike the keypad of others, their keypad autocorrect is crying for a break after having to correct so many wrong spellings.
It’s an intelligent way to say someone is so bad at spelling even the basic words that they rely on the autocorrect on their phone’s keypad.
2. I wouldn’t trust you to write a grocery list.
Another interesting punchline you can use to roast someone terrible at spelling is, “I wouldn’t trust you to write a grocery list.”
This is a hilarious way to let them know that they are bad at spelling, even without texting.
When you allow such a person to write a grocery list for you, they could misspell a fruit drink name for an aftershave brand.
So this is the kind of roast you tell a lousy speller to make them laugh, but it still comes off as a roast as well.
3. I think your spelling bee just stung itself
To utterly diss someone who struggles to spell basic words, tell them, “I think your spelling bee just stung itself.”
It’s a perfect play on words that means each time they attempt to spell something, the blunder they make is stinging their spelling bee.
This means you’re using the literal meaning of bee when usually, the spelling bee is a word derived from the Old English bēn meaning “a prayer, a favour.
So this roast is just a lively way to tease someone who struggles to spell, and you can use it when you have no intention of making the person feel bad.
4. You put the “ill” in illiterate
If you want to say something harsh to the person who struggles to spell, tell them, “You put the “ill” in illiterate.”
This means that they are so bad at spelling that one can easily predict that they had no form of formal education.
It also implies that even some illiterate can spell than them because, from the sound of it, they are the three-letter words that make a literate become an illiterate.
It is such a clever play on letters for a roast that has to do with spelling itself. It is my favourite.
5. Please, for the love of grammar, use spell check.
There are many spell-check tools online that help edit spelling errors. So, instead of telling the person verbatim that they spell badly, you can beg them to use spell check.
Thus, “Please, for the love of grammar, use spell check” is an indirect way to diss someone who spells badly.
I like this roast because once you tell the person, they immediately get the message.
They will feel roasted. But if they are brave enough, they’ll reply with a comeback, telling you to use a tool for help that would hint at your defects as well.
6. Did you learn to spell from a ransom note?
We all know how badly written ransom notes can be (I hope we don’t get any, though). It’s either the kidnappers are uneducated, or they wrote it under pressure.
But for someone who can’t spell, it’s always the former.
So when they ask why you’re asking, then you tell them they spell badly. You can now expect them to laugh and then feel roasted afterwards.
Basically, it’s a rhetorical question that directly shows you’re dissing the person for spelling badly.
7. I can almost hear the dictionary weeping in the corner.
“I can almost hear the dictionary weeping in the corner” is another sarcastic way to roast someone who spells badly.
People who find it hard to spell even simple words would always turn to their Dictionary app to check for words.
So, it is fair to say that their Dictionary has seen more recent activity than their Email app.
So you can see the humour of giving animate characteristics to the inmate app by saying it cries out of being used excessively by the dumb person.
This line is a burn. They will be torn between laughing at a really cool joke and being pissed by a really harsh roast.
8. Don’t worry; spell check isn’t judging you… it’s just terrifying.
When trying to roast someone who can’t spell, you can never go wrong by using the idea of their excessive use of spell check.
I like this roast punchline because it applies to both those who are older or younger than you who you want to diss.
The line doesn’t have a very mean undertone but humorously suggests that they use the spell checker function too much when texting, which shows they are worse at putting letters together to spell even the basic words when chatting.
9. Did you write that with your toes? Because it looks like it.
Rubbish in this context goes beyond writing useless ideas, but this time, writing those ideas with wrong spellings here are there.
If the person’s texts and unnecessary abbreviations put you off, you can make fun of them by sarcastically asking if they write with their toes.
This is one of the roast punchlines I often use because it is accessible communication that I’m trying to diss the person for sending wrong spellings constantly, and I’m tired of it.
10. Your spelling is like your fashion sense: a total mystery.
If you brutally want to roast someone who spells words badly, who says you have to stick with their defects of bad spelling?
You can expand to other areas where they are dumb, such as their dress sense.
This is why I think the line, “Your spelling is like your fashion sense: a total mystery”, is a perfect thing to say when trying to roast someone who can’t spell.
Even though the person dresses well, the fact that you’re wrongly assuming that they don’t dress well will surely get under their skin.
And that’s the goal. To get them riled up.
11. “Would of” isn’t a thing. It wouldn’t have been a thing even in the 1800s.
I have read this roast line in the comment section of many posts on X (formerly Twitter.)
While it’s a popular one, it can still work for any situation because all you have to do is substitute the “would of” with anything the person was trying hard to spell. So, let’s assume he spells a lot instead of “a lot.”
You can say, “A lot isn’t a thing. It wouldn’t have been a thing even in the 1800s.”
So it’s all about the wrongly spelt word. This is why I think it’s one of the most flexible things to say when roasting someone who spells badly.
12. Did you skip spelling class to attend a seminar on how to confuse everyone?
Someone who struggles to spell even basic words that don’t require a university degree to know proves one thing to us: they didn’t attend spelling class even when they were young.
So you can play on that idea and roast the person by saying, ” Did you skip spelling class to attend a seminar on how to confuse everyone?”
Of course, it’s a rhetorical question, and you don’t expect the person to respond straightforwardly, or else they are coming with a comeback.
But you can achieve one thing with this roast. The thing is, you will get them furious. But the weak ones will feel ashamed.
13. Go learn how to spell.
“Go learn how to spell” is a simple and direct way to roast someone who can’t spell words well.
I once read somewhere that sometimes it’s the simplest form of remarks that hurt the most.
So you don’t have to be too creative when roasting someone. The goal is to make them feel ashamed and wish to go underground on that spot you’re roasting them.
So I like this roast. It’s easy to remember. It may not have all the zinger you’re looking for, but it works for roasting someone.
14. I’m starting to suspect you write with your elbows.
Again, insinuating that someone writes with their elbows is an indirect way to make fun of their bad handwriting.
But in this context, you’re making fun of their spelling abilities.
It’s a funny roast for someone who can’t spell. You can expect a few laughs and reactions when you drop this line, especially during an ongoing game in the chats.
15. Chatting with you is a sport.
“Chatting with you is a sport” may sound like a compliment, but when you read between the lines, you’ll notice what a dismissive roast it is.
Sport is an activity that puts you in rigour and stress. So you’re indirectly saying the person is stressful to chat with.
You exaggerate by implying that each time you chat with the person, you begin to pant and have a high beat rate because of how you try to understand their words word by word and line by line.
16. How do you chat with your crush online with this spelling shame?
Another way to roast someone who can’t spell is to tell them, ” How do you chat with your crush online with this spelling shame?”
This is not a rhetorical question, as you can be primarily a reply from the person. But they will be confused and want to know where such a question is coming from.
That’s where the actual roast comes in. You tell them you’d be surprised if their crush can remotely understand what they type because they are so bad as spelling.
17. Learn to spell before you embarrass yourself online again.
Nobody likes embarrassment. When people get the impression that they’re embarrassing themselves, they tend to withdraw.
Thus, the line “Learn to spell before you embarrass yourself online again” is a fantastic roast you can use to diss someone who spells badly.
It is useful, especially when the person was initially trying to roast you when they spelt words badly.
So this option doubles as a roast and a comeback for when someone insults you.
18. They invented spellcheck for people like you.
Call it another spell-check joke, but as long as it involves someone who badly spells words, you can never get enough.
You can tell someone that they are the reason behind many spell-check tools because they are the problem that these tools intend to solve.
It’s an indirect way to roast someone who struggles to spell words.
19. I’d roast you harder, but I’m afraid you wouldn’t understand the punchline (or how to spell it).
Sometimes, spelling can be genuinely challenging.
But when you have someone who habitually sends the wrong spelling of basic words, let them know that you intend to roast them for it, but then you wouldn’t because they most likely won’t understand the punchlines either.
It works any day, anytime.
20. Now I see why you can’t spell paint without pain
If you want to roast someone who can’t spell in a highly witty way, tell them “Now I see why you can’t spell paint without pain.”
It’s a clever play on words because the person is forced to start thinking of how pain is in the “paint” spelling.
And while they’re at it, they now have to think about the meaning of what you said.
This roast is basically mocking someone who spells bad, about the pain they go through to spell even basic words.
The paint vs pain situation is just a solid way to do that