List of common misspellings in English
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This is a list of common misspellings in the English language.
See also: Wikipedia:List of common misspellings, List of commonly confused homonyms
MISSPELLING | CORRECT SPELLING |
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abberration | aberration |
accomodation | accommodation |
acheive | achieve |
adress | address |
alterior | ulterior |
athiest | atheist |
autum | autumn |
befor | before |
beleive | believe |
Britian | Britain |
Caucasion | Caucasian |
cemetary | cemetery |
committment | commitment (but committed, committing, committee) |
concensus | consensus |
concieve | conceive |
Dalmation | Dalmatian |
decaffinated | decaffeinated |
decathalon | decathlon |
definately | definitely |
desireable | desirable |
diety | deity (error promulgated by an early Unix spell-checker) |
diptheria | diphtheria |
dispell | dispel |
ecx., exc. | etc. (for et cetera) |
embarass | embarrass |
enviroment | environment |
expresso | espresso |
extremly | extremely |
facist | fascist |
Febuary | February |
flourescent | fluorescent |
flouride | fluoride |
form | from(changes into another word) |
from | form(changes into another word) |
fourty | forty |
freind | friend |
geneology | genealogy |
geuss | guess |
goverment | government |
grammer | grammar |
hampster | hamster |
harrass | harass |
heros | heroes |
hieght, heigth height | |
hunderd | hundred |
hygeine | hygiene |
hypocracy | hypocrisy |
independance | independence |
innoculate | inoculate |
intresting | interesting |
libary | library |
mabey | maybe |
masterbate | masturbate |
millenium | millennium |
miniscule | minuscule |
mischievious | mischievous |
mispell | misspell |
missle | missile |
mit | mitt (except for MIT, or Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
monkies | monkeys (except for the 1960s rock group, who are The Monkees) |
neice | niece |
nickle | nickel |
nineth | ninth |
ninty | ninety |
noticable | noticeable |
occured | occurred |
occurence | occurrence |
oppurtunity | opportunity |
opthamologist ophthalmologist | |
paralell | parallel |
pasttime | pastime |
peice | piece |
percieve | perceive |
perserverance perseverance | |
persue | pursue |
posession | possession |
pertend | pretend |
Pharoah | Pharaoh (except for Pharoah Sanders) |
Pokeman | Pokémon |
potatoe | potato |
preceeding | preceding |
pronounciation pronunciation | |
publically | publicly (the one exception to the -ically rule) |
rasberry | raspberry |
recieve | receive |
reccomend | recommend |
reguardless | regardless |
rythm | rhythm (but eurythmics) |
seige | siege |
seperate | separate |
sherbert | sherbet |
sieze | seize |
similiar | similar |
sincerly | sincerely |
speach | speech |
stagitory | statutory |
suggestable | suggestible |
supercede | supersede |
suprise | surprise |
thier | their |
tommorrow | tomorrow |
tounge | tongue |
triathalon | triathlon |
ukelele | ukulele |
vaccuum | vacuum |
vegeterian | vegetarian |
villian | villain |
Wendesday | Wednesday |
wierd | weird |
writting | writing |