Heard spelling

funikulas

Spelled funiculus. two changes at once

Funikulas gets two things wrong for the same reason.

The k and the a are both attempts to write down sounds that Latin spells differently.

The final syllable is -lus, an ordinary Latin ending, and it is unstressed, so it arrives as a vague uh. The c before u is hard and always has been. Neither the k nor the a can be heard as wrong, which is why this word has to be learned by its parts: funis, rope, plus the diminutive -culus.

Say

fyoo-NIK-yuu-luss

Letters

F-U-N-I-C-U-L-U-S