Why do we sometimes say a word or look at a word so many times that it sounds foreign/doesn’t look like a real word?

Question

I hope this makes sense

Like when you’re taking notes and you write a word and it just doesn’t seem spelled correctly no matter what or it just seems strange, or when you say a word and it feels weird coming out and you have difficulty comprehending that it’s an actual word.

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Answer 1

Our brain does not save words and their meaning in a dictionary. It does not remember words with other words.

Brains save with pictures and they might look a bit different. So when you remember the word-picture your brain saved for you, it might look odd.
You need to overwrite the picture with another and update it. This, sadly is not as easy as the first time around.