Back before I got good at the whole spelling thing--not good enough to win a Spelling Bee, sadly--I managed to find creative spellings for words I didn't know how to spell, one based on the boring spelling rules I learned, and another based on how it'd be cool if a word was spelt.

My favorite memory of a misspelled word was "OSOUM" for awesome. Back in 5th grade everyone said that a lot and I wrote it while doodling and someone asked "what the hell does that mean?"

...so I'm curious about what anyone else had fun misspelling before knowing better.

--Actually, I did win a Spelling Bee but it wasn't official. My seventh grade class went to some "100 years ago" theme park as a field trip and we had a boys vs girls spelling bee. We were with my humanities teacher's other group and the guy in our class who was the favorite missed "Lutheran" and so did the girl in the other class. She totally butchered it, as she didn't realize he forgot to capitalize the L.

What a hero I was that day!