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