Commonly Misspelt Words
Spelling is one of the most important factors when it comes to writing articles or books. You should always make sure your writing software has a good, updated spell-checker. You should also double-check with a search engine that a word you're unsure of actually exists or has the definition that you believe it has.
Bad spelling is not everybody's fault, however. English is not necessarily everyone's first language and some people have difficulties when it comes to reading and writing, such as dyslexia. This is why it is important to be gentle when approaching someone about their spelling - it might not be their fault!
Below is a list of the commonly misspelt words in the English language. How many have you avoided?
Bad spelling is not everybody's fault, however. English is not necessarily everyone's first language and some people have difficulties when it comes to reading and writing, such as dyslexia. This is why it is important to be gentle when approaching someone about their spelling - it might not be their fault!
Below is a list of the commonly misspelt words in the English language. How many have you avoided?
Correct Spelling | Common Misspelling |
A lot | alot |
absence | absense |
accommodate | accomodate |
accommodation | accomodation |
achieve | acheive |
across | accross / accros |
aggression | agression |
aggressive | agressive |
apparently | apparantly / apperently |
appearance | appearence |
argument | arguement |
assassinate | assasinate / asassinate |
assassinated | assasinated / asassinated |
assassination | assasination / asassination |
atheist | athiest |
basically | basicly |
beginning | begining |
believe | beleive / belive |
bizarre | bizzare |
bureau | bereu / buero / buraeu |
business | buisness / bisness / biziness |
calendar | calender |
Caribbean | Carribean / Carribbean / Caribbean / Carybean |
cemetery | cemetary |
chauffeur | chauffer |
chimney | chimey / chinley / chimnly |
christian | cristian |
colleague | collegue / coleague |
coming | comming / cuming |
committee | commitee / comittee |
completely | completly |
conceive | concieve |
conscious | concious |
copyright | copywrite / copyrite |
curiosity | curiousity |
definitely | definately / definitly |
democracy | democrasy / democricy |
diarrhea | diarrea / diorhea |
dilemma | dilemna |
disappear | dissapear / disapear / disspear |
disappoint | dissapoint / disappoint / disspoint |
dyslexia | dieslexia / dslexia / dyeslexia / dslexia |
ecstasy | ecstacy |
embarrass | embarass / embarras |
environment | enviroment / environement / evironment |
espresso | expresso |
existence | existance / esistence |
extremely | extremly |
Fahrenheit | Farenheit / Farenheight |
familiar | familar |
fascist | facist |
February | Febuary |
finally | finaly / fineally |
fluorescent | florescent |
foreign | foriegn / forin / forein |
forty | fourty / fortey |
forward | foward |
friend | freind / frend |
further | futher |
future | futere / futcher / futuare |
gist | jist |
government | goverment / govverment / govermnent |
grammar | grammer / gramar |
guard | gaurd |
happened | happend |
harass | harrass |
harassment | harrassment |
height | hieght |
heroes | heros |
idiosyncrasy | idiosyncracy |
immediately | immediatly |
incidentally | incidently |
independent | independant / inderpendent |
interrupt | interupt / interruptt |
irresistible | irresistable / iresistible |
knowledge | knowlege / noledge / knoledge |
leprechaun | leprecan |
liaise | liase / liease |
liaison | liason / lieason / liasion |
library | libary |
lightning | lightening |
lollipop | lollypop / lolipop |
millennium | millenium / milennium / millionum / milenium |
monkeys | monkies / mokeys / munkeys |
mountain | mountian |
Neanderthal | Neandertal / Nearthandal / Neanderthandel |
necessary | neccessary |
nickel | nickle |
niece | neice / neece |
ninety | ninty |
ninth | nineth |
no one | noone |
noticeable | noticable |
occasion | ocassion / occassion / occashion |
opportunity | oppurtunity |
parallel | paralell |
pavilion | pavillion |
persistent | persistant |
pharaoh | pharoah / feroah / pereoh / pharogh / phairoah / fairaoh / fairough |
piece | peice / peece / pise / piese / piesce |
pinocchio | pinocio |
politician | politican / politchian |
Portuguese | Portugese |
possession | posession |
potato | potatoe / poetato / portato |
prefer | preffer |
preferred | prefered |
president | presidant / presdent / prezident / presedent |
pretend | pertend |
privilege | priviledge |
pronunciation | pronounciation |
propaganda | propoganda |
publicly | publically / pubicley |
really | realy / relly |
receive | recieve |
religious | religous |
remember | rember / remeber |
resistance | resistence |
rhyme | rhym / ryme / rhime |
rhythm | rythm |
ridiculous | rediculous / riddicklous / rediculos / ridiculos |
sense | sence |
sentence | sentance |
separate | seperate |
siege | seige |
sincerely | sincerly |
speech | speach / speetch |
strategy | stragedy |
successful | succesful |
supposedly | supposively |
surprise | suprise / surprize |
therefore | therefor |
tomorrow | tommorow / tommorrow |
truck | truk / turck / truct |
truly | truely |
unfortunately | unfortunatly |
until | untill |
vacuum | vaccuum |
vegetarian | vegeterian |
villain | villan |
volcano | volcanoe |
Wednesday | Wensday / Wedenday / Whensday / Wedsnesday |
weird | wierd |
wherever | whereever |
which | wich |
writing | writting / riting |