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Man, I wish people would get it into their heads that
"discreet" and "discrete" are not the same thing. Unless you're a mathematician or a scientist, you almost never have need to use "discrete", so why people keep aiming for that spelling instead of the one they ought to be using, I don't know.
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"Discreet" looks as if it's spelled phonetically, and since that's not how English spelling works in general, the spelling is dismissed as likely being incorrect. When spell checkers indicate that the other spelling IS correct, they assume that they were right.