The rhyme is :
"M-I-crooked letter-crooked letter-I
Crooked letter-crooked letter-I
humpback-humpback-I."
There was also a song once that explained it to young spellers. The refrain was :
"M-I-S, S-I-S, S-I-P-P-I".
(Another hard name is Cincinnati, which is easy to remember : just drop the last two letters from CIN-CIN-NATION.)
You left out an "s"... it's Mississippi (with a capital M). For fun: Mi crooked letter crooked letter i crooked letter crooked letter i humpback humpback i ...or you drop out of school in the second grade.
Both the river and the US state names are spelled Mississippi.*One way to be sure that you have spelled it correctly is that you can see the four-letter combinations ISSI, ISSI, and IPPI in the correct form.
Biloxi, as in the place in Mississippi.
it is mississippi
MISSISSIPPI
Mississippi
Mississippi
The state capital of Mississippi is Jackson.
Humpback Whale that looks nice and neat NOT humpback whale! Common names should not be capitalized, italicized or underlined. So: The humpback whale breached. NOT: The Humpback Whale breached.
MISSISSIPPI
you spell it Mississippi
The word sought may be "crooked" (bent, not straight, or slang for dishonest).