Heard spelling

andreeceum

Spelled androecium. two changes at once

How do you get from andreeceum back to the right word?

Androecium. The ee belongs after the o of andro-, spelled oe, and the ending is -ium rather than -eum.

Andreeceum gets the consonants right and every vowel wrong, a common shape for a word learned by ear. The vowels here are carrying history rather than sound: the o closes andro-, the oe opens oikos, and the i is Latin.

Say

an-DREE-see-um

Letters

A-N-D-R-O-E-C-I-U-M