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Commonly misspelled English words from A-Z

Commonly misspelled English words from A-Z
ALPHABET WRONG WORDS CORRECT WORDS
A-a absense, absentse, abcense, absance absence
A-a acceptible acceptable
A-a accidentaly accidentally/accidently
A-a accomodate, acommodate accommodate
A-a acheive achieve
A-a acknowlege, aknowledge acknowledge
A-a acquaintence, aquaintance acquaintance
A-a  aquire, adquire acquire
A-a   aquit acquit
A-a acrage, acerage acreage
A-a  adress address
A-a adultary adultery
A-a  adviseable, advizable advisable
A-a effect affect
A-a agression aggression
A-a aggressive aggressive
A-a allegaince, allegience, alegiance allegiance
A-a  allmost almost
A-a  alot (must be two words), allot a lot
A-a amatuer, amature amateur
A-a  anually, annualy annually
A-a apparant, aparent, apparrent, aparrent apparent
A-a artic arctic
A-a argument argument
A-a  athiest, athist atheist
A-a  awfull, aweful awful
B-b  becuase because
B-b  beatiful beautiful
B-b  becoming becoming
B-b  beginning beginning
B-b  believe believe
B-b  bellweather bellwether
B-b  bouy/bouyant buoy/buoyant
B-b  buisness business
C-c  calender calendar
C-c  camoflage, camoflague camouflage
C-c  capital (both words exist, but are distinct) capitol
C-c  Carribean Caribbean
C-c  category category
C-c cauhgt, caugt caught
C-c  cemetary, cematery cemetery
C-c changeable changeable
C-c  chief chief
C-c  collaegue, collegue colleague
C-c  colum column
C-c coming coming
C-c  commited, comitted committed
C-c comparsion comparison
C-c  conceed concede
C-c  congradulate congratulate
C-c  consciencious conscientious
C-c  concious, consious conscious
C-c  concensus consensus
C-c  contraversy controversy
C-c cooly coolly
D-d  dacquiri, daquiri daiquiri
D-d  decieve deceive
D-d  definate,definit definite
D-d  definitly, definately, defiantly definitely
D-d  desparate desperate
D-d  diffrence difference
D-d dilema dilemma
D-d dissapoint disappoint
D-d  disasterous disastrous
D-d  drunkeness drunkenness
D-d  dumbell dumbbell
E-e  embarrass embarrass
E-e  equiptment (wrong in numerous webpages) equipment
E-e  excede exceed
E-e exilerate exhilarate
E-e  existance existence
E-e  experience experience
E-e  extreem extreme
F-f  facinating fascinating
F-f  firey fiery
F-f  flourescent fluorescent
F-f foreign foreign
F-f friend friend
F-f fullfil (American: fulfill) fulfil
G-g  guage gauge
G-g  gratefull, greatful grateful
G-g  grate, grat great
G-g garantee, garentee, garanty guarantee
G-g  guidence guidance
H-h  harrass harass
H-h  heighth, heigth height
H-h  heirarchy hierarchy
H-h  hors derves, ordeurves hors d’oeuvres
H-h  humerous humorous
H-h  hygene, hygine, hiygeine, higeine, hygeine[3] hygiene
H-h  hipocrit hypocrisy/hypocrite
I-i  ignorence ignorance
I-i  immitate imitate
I-i  imediately immediately
I-i indite indict
I-i  independent independent
I-i  indispensible indispensable
I-i innoculate inoculate
I-i  inteligence, intelligance intelligence
J-j   jewelery jewelry (UK: jewellery)
J-j  judgement (issue in the U.S.) judgment
K-k  kernal, distinct from homophone “colone kernel
L-l  
L-l  liesure leisure
L-l  liason liaison
L-l  libary, liberry library
L-l  lisence (US always license, UK noun licence) license
L-l lightening lightning
L-l  loose lose
M-m  maintainance, maintnance maintenance
M-m  marshmellow marshmallow
M-m  medeval, medevil, mideval medieval
M-m  momento memento
M-m  millenium, milennium millennium
M-m  miniture miniature
M-m  miniscule minuscule
M-m  mischievious, mischevous, mischevious mischievous
M-m  mispell, misspel misspell
N-n  neccessary, necessery necessary
 neice niece
 nieghbor neighbour
 noticable noticeable
O-o  occasion occasion
 occasionaly, occassionally occasionally
 occurrance, occurrence occurrence
 occurred occurred
 ommision, omision omission
 orignal original
outragous outrageous
P-p  parliament parliament
P-p  passtime, pasttime pastime
P-p percieve perceive
P-p  perseverence perseverance
P-p  personell, personel personnel
P-p  plagerize plagiarize
P-p  playright, playwrite playwright
P-p  posession, possesion possession
P-p  potatos potatoes
P-p  preceed potatoes
P-p presence presence
P-p  principal principle
P-p privelege, priviledge privilege
P-p  professer professor
P-p  protestor protester
P-p  promiss promise
P-p  pronounciation pronunciation
P-p  prufe proof
P-p prophesy (valid as verb) prophecy (as noun)
P-p publically publicly
Q-q  quarentine quarantine
Q-q  que (from Bar-B-Que) queue
Q-q  questionaire, questionnair questionnaire
R-r  readible readable
R-r  realy really
R-r  receive receive
R-r  reciept receipt
R-r  recomend, recommend recommend
R-r refered referred
R-r  referance, refrence reference
R-r  relevent, revelant relevant
R-r  religous, religius religious
R-r  repitition repetition
R-r restarant, restaurant restaurant
R-r  rime rhyme
R-r  rythm, rythem rhythm
S-s  secratary, secretery secretary
S-s  sieze seize
S-s  separate separate
S-s  sargent sergeant
S-s  similer similar
S-s skilfull (American: skillful) skilful
S-s speach, speeche (archaic) speech
S-s succesful, successfull, sucessful successful
S-s supercede supersede
S-s  suprise, surprize surprise
T-t  then than
T-t  there, they’re their
T-t  tomatos tomatoes
T-t tommorow, tommorrow tomorrow
T-t twelth twelfth
T-t tyrany tyranny
U-u  underate underrate
U-u  untill until
U-u  upholstry upholstery
U-u  usible usable/useable
V-v  vaccuum, vaccum, vacume vacuum
V-v  vehical vehicle
V-v  visious vicious
W-w  wether, whether weather
W-w  weird weird
W-w  wellfare, welfair welfare
W-w  wether whether
W-w  wilfull (American: willful) wilful
W-w  withold withhold
W-w  writting, writeing writing

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