Spelling Solutions

For this word, the difficulty comes in remembering that ecstasy ends with -sy, not with -cy.

I've created the following mnemonic story and devices to help.

The Story: Stacey's Ecstasy

Not everyone is a good speller, you know. Especially a little girl named Stacey who I recently heard about. Normally she fails (or almost fails) her spelling tests by just a few questions. So imagine Stacey's ecstasy as she runs home, spelling test in hand, to tell her parents that she just got one C on her weekly spelling test, and all because the word ecstasy is Stacey's word—it's her anagram.

The Mnemonic

• The word Stacey's is an anagram of ecstasy. (An anagram contains all the letters of one word but rearranged in a different order to form a new word.) If you forget how to spell the word ecstasy, but can remember the anagram, you can rearrange the letters to come up with the correct way to spell it.
• It's also helpful to remember Stacey's grade on the spelling test: she received one C on her test—but just one. Similarly, you can remember that ecstasy has just one c in it. Once you've used up the c in spelling the beginning of the word, you must use a different letter (an s) to spell the end of the word.