List of common misspellings in English
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Template:Mergeto This is a list of common misspellings in the English language.
| MISSPELLING | CORRECT SPELLING
|
|---|---|
| abberration | aberration |
| accomodation | accommodation |
| acheive | achieve |
| adress | address |
| alot | a lot or allot |
| alterior | ulterior |
| athiest | atheist |
| beggining | beginning |
| beleive | believe |
| bicep | biceps |
| Britian | Britain |
| Caucasion | Caucasian |
| cemetary | cemetery |
| committment | commitment (but committed, committing, committee) |
| concensus | consensus |
| concieve | conceive |
| copywrite | copyright |
| cilinder | cylinder |
| Dalmation | Dalmatian |
| decaffinated | decaffeinated |
| decathalon | decathlon |
| definately | definitely |
| dependance | dependence Note: Dependant, although spelled with an "a", refers to someone or something dependent upon another |
| des(s)icate | desiccate |
| desireable | desirable |
| destory | destroy |
| diarhea | diarrhoea (Commonwealth English) or diarrhea (American English) |
| diety | deity |
| dissapoint | disappoint |
| dispell | dispel |
| embarass | embarrass |
| enviroment | environment |
| expresso | espresso |
| extremly | extremely |
| facist | fascist |
| Febuary | February |
| fluoroscent | fluorescent |
| flouride | fluoride |
| fourty | forty |
| freind | friend |
| geneology | genealogy |
| goverment | government |
| grammer | grammar |
| hampster | hamster |
| harrass | harass |
| hemorage | hemorrhage |
| heros | heroes |
| hieght, heigth | height |
| hygeine | hygiene |
| hypocracy | hypocrisy |
| independance | independence Note: see dependant/dependent, above |
| inate | innate |
| innoculate | inoculate |
| intresting | interesting |
| it's | its (possessive pronoun) |
| knowlege | knowledge |
| las(s)oo | lasso |
| lazer | laser |
| libary | library |
| lightening | lightning |
| managable | manageable |
| millenium | millennium |
| mischievious | mischievous |
| mispell | misspell |
| missle | missile |
| mit | mitt |
| monestary | monastery (remember that "monastic" is not "monestic") |
| monkies | monkeys |
| morgage | mortgage |
| mountian | mountain |
| neccessary | necessary |
| neice | niece |
| nickle | nickel |
| nineth | ninth |
| ninty | ninety |
| noone | no one or no-one |
| noticable | noticeable |
| occured | occurred |
| occurence | occurrence |
| onomatopeia | onomatopoeia |
| oppurtunity | opportunity |
| opthamologist | ophthalmologist |
| paralell | parallel |
| pasttime | pastime |
| pavillion | pavilion |
| peice | piece |
| percieve | perceive |
| perserverance | perseverance |
| persue | pursue |
| pheonix | Phoenix |
| posession | possession |
| pertend | pretend |
| Pharoah | Pharaoh (exception: Pharoah Sanders) |
| phosphorous | phosphorus (exception: phosphorus(III)) |
| potatoe | potato |
| preceeding | preceding |
| pronounciation | pronunciation |
| privelige | privilege |
| publically | publicly (exception to the -ically rule; other exception variants include franticly & impoliticly) |
| rasberry | raspberry |
| recieve | receive |
| reccomend | recommend |
| rediculous | ridiculous |
| reguardless | regardless |
| rythm | rhythm |
| sacreligious | sacrilegious |
| seige | siege |
| sentance | sentence |
| seperate | separate |
| sieze | seize |
| similiar | similar |
| sincerly | sincerely |
| speach | speech |
| stationary | stationery (office supplies term) |
| stragedy | strategy |
| 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 (exception: Wierd programming language) |
| writting | writing |
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