Common Misspellings In English
How do you spell...? A common question not only for ESL students, but for their teachers too who have a great need to avoid spelling mistakes. Below you'll find a list of the most common misspellings in English.
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| Common Misspelling | Correct Spelling |
|---|---|
| accomodation or acommodation | accommodation |
| acheive | achieve |
| accross | across |
| adress | address |
| agressive | aggressive |
| alot | a lot |
| apparantly | apparently |
| appearence | appearance |
| arguement | argument |
| assasination | assassination |
| basicly | basically |
| beggining | beginning |
| beleive | believe |
| bizzare | bizarre |
| buisness | business |
| Carribean | Caribbean |
| chauffer | chauffeur |
| cemetary | cemetery |
| collegue | colleague |
| commitee | committee |
| committment | commitment |
| completly | completely |
| concious | conscious |
| copywrite | copyright |
| curiousity | curiosity |
| decaffinated | decaffeinated |
| definately | definitely |
| dependance | dependence |
| desireable | desirable |
| diarhea | diarrhoea |
| dissapoint | disappoint |
| dissapear | disappear |
| dispell | dispel |
| ecstacy | ecstasy |
| embarass | embarrass |
| enviroment | environment |
| Farenheit | Fahrenheit |
| Febuary | February |
| finaly | finally |
| fluoroscent | fluorescent |
| flouride | fluoride |
| foriegn | foreign |
| forteen | fourteen |
| fourty | forty |
| freind | friend |
| geneology | genealogy |
| glamourous | glamorous |
| goverment | government |
| grammer | grammar |
| happend | happened |
| hemorage | haemorrhage |
| heros | heroes |
| hight | height |
| humourous | humorous |
| hygeine | hygiene |
| idiosyncracy | idiosyncrasy |
| independance | independence |
| interupt | interrupt |
| intresting | interesting |
| juge | judge |
| knowlege | knowledge |
| lazer | laser |
| liason | liaison |
| libary | library |
| lightening | lightning |
| lollypop | lollipop |
| millenium | millennium |
| mischievious | mischievous |
| mispell | misspell |
| monkies | monkeys |
| morgage | mortgage |
| neccessary | necessary |
| neice | niece |
| noone | no one or no-one |
| noticable | noticeable |
| occassion | occasion |
| occured | occurred |
| oppurtunity | opportunity |
| paralell | parallel |
| pasttime | pastime |
| peice | piece |
| persistant | persistent |
| persue | pursue |
| pharoah | pharaoh |
| Portugese | Portuguese |
| posession | possession |
| potatoe | potato |
| preceeding | preceding |
| prefered | preferred |
| pronounciation | pronunciation |
| propoganda | propaganda |
| privelige | privilege |
| publically | publicly |
| rasberry | raspberry |
| recieve | receive |
| reccomend | recommend |
| rythm | rhythm |
| shedule | schedule |
| seige | siege |
| sentance | sentence |
| seperate | separate |
| sieze | seize |
| sincerly | sincerely |
| supercede | supersede |
| suprise | surprise |
| tatoo | tattoo |
| tendancy | tendency |
| thier | their |
| threshhold | threshold |
| tommorrow | tomorrow |
| truely | truly |
| untill | until |
| vaccuum | vacuum |
| vegeterian | vegetarian |
| Wendesday | Wednesday |
| whereever | wherever |
| wierd | weird |
| writen | written |
