In several places, Nephi uses the word strait. Spelled in that way, strait means narrow. So, the strait and narrow pass is actually a narrow, narrow pass. When it is spelled straight, it means not crooked. Sometimes it may feel crooked, especially as we are pulled in unexpected directions. In life, we get taken places we don’t expect, even though it always leads us to Him.
Book of Mormon Central, "Is the Path to Eternal Life ‘Strait’ or ‘Straight’? (1 Nephi 8:20)," KnoWhy 456 (August 7, 2018).