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 |
| ad nauseum | ad nauseam (some spell-checkers get this one wrong) |
| alterior | ulterior |
| athiest | atheist |
| autum | autumn |
| befor | before |
| beggining | beginning |
| 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 |
| knowlege | knowledge |
| 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) |
| monestary | monastery (remember that "monastic" is not "monestic") |
| 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) |
| Phosphorous | Phosphorus (unless specifically phosphorus(III)) |
| 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 (remember that it's named after the god Saturn) |
| 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 |