List_of_common_misspellings_in_English
List of common misspellings in English
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This is a list of common misspellings in the English language.
MISSPELLING CORRECT SPELLING
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
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
lightening lightning
mabey maybe
masterbate masturbate
managable manageable
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)
morgage mortgage
mountian mountain
neccessary necessary
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
rediculous ridiculous
reguardless regardless
rythm rhythm (but eurythmics)
sacreligious sacrilegious
Saterday Saturday
seige siege
sentance sentence
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
See also
List of commonly confused homonyms
List of frequently misused English words
Wikipedia:List of common misspellings for a larger list
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