For those of us who are not original English language users, it is often a challenge to be always accurate in terms of pronouncing and spelling English words. So, basically, we end up misspelling lots of words either in ignorance or in stack illiteracy. That doesn’t have to be the end of life if we commit to learning. This is why we have decided to bring you these top 100 commonly misspelled words in English. We have brought the misspellings and the correct spellings.
From the list of words below, it is found that the major reason for misspelling is most words occurs in certain predictable cases, which include
- When there are same alphabets following each other. example: aCCoMModate, miSSpell, begiNNing etc. So, people are always confused on whether to use one single alphabets or two.
- Confusion between S & C. For example, people use senCe instead of senSe, abCense for abSence, conSede for conCede. etc.
- Position of O and U: Most times, when words have a succession of O & U in the same word, it is often confusing on which one comes before the other. For example: buoy/bouy, outrageous/outrageuos, etc.
- Vowel confusions: This occurs when you have the cases of i & e placed in quick succession such that it is confused on which one to place first before the other. eg recipient/recipeint, achieve/acheive, atheist/athiest, their/thier, etc.
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Despite these challenges, it is possible to conquer these commonly misspelled words with as much as a little practice. This is why we have brought this to you to serve as a guide, if only you commit to learning them for the better.
Top 100 Commonly Misspelled Words
So, here is the list of the commonly misspelled words and how to correctly spell them. Those in the left hands are the ones correctly spelt.
- absence – abcense, absance
- acceptable – acceptible
- accidentally/accidently – accidentaly
- accommodate – accomodate, acommodate
- achieve – acheive
- acknowledge – acknowlege, aknowledg
- acquaintance – acquaintence, aquaintance
- acquire – aquire, adquire
- acquit – aquit
- acreage – acrage, acerage
- argument – arguement
- atheist – athiest
- awful – awfull, aweful
- because – becuase
- becoming – becomeing
- beginning – begining
- believe – beleive
- bellwether – bellweather
- buoy/buoyant – bouy/bouyant
- business – buisness
- calendar – calender
- camouflage – camoflage, camoflague
- capitol – capital (both words exist, but are distinct)
- Caribbean – Carribean
- category – catagory
- caught – cauhgt, caugt
- cemetery – cemetary, cematery
- changeable – changable
- chief – cheif
- colleague – collaegue, collegue
- column – colum
- coming – comming
- committed – commited, comitted
- concede – conceed
- congratulate – congradulate
- conscientious – consciencious
- conscious – concious, consious
- consensus – concensus
- controversy – contraversy
- coolly – cooly
- daiquiri – dacquiri, daquiri
- deceive – decieve
- efinite – definate, definit
- definitely – definitly, definately, defiantly
- desperate – desparate
- difference – diffrence
- dilemma – dilema
- disappoint – disapoint
- disastrous – disasterous
- drunkenness – drunkeness
- dumbbell – dumbell
- embarrass – embarass
- equipment – equiptment
- exceed – excede
- exhilarate – exilerate
- existence – existance
- experience – experiance
- extreme – extreem
- fascinating – facinating
- harass – harrass
- height – heighth, heigth
- hierarchy – heirarchy
- hors d’oeuvres – hors derves, ordeurves
- humorous – humerous
- hygiene – hygene, hygine, hiygeine, higeine, hygeine
- hypocrisy/hypocrite – hipocrit
- niece – neice
- neighbor – nieghbor
- occasion – occassion
- occasionally – occasionaly, occassionally
- occurrence – occurrance, occurence
- omission – ommision, omision
- original – orignal
- outrageous – outragous
- potatoes – potatos
- precede – preceed
- presence – presance
- principle – principal
- privilege – privelege, priviledge
- pronunciation – pronounciation
- their – there, they’re
- tomatoes – tomatos
- tomorrow – tommorow, tommorrow
- tyranny – tyrany
- underrate – underate
- sergeant – sargent
- similar – similer
- skilful – skilfull (American: skillful)
- speech – speach, speeche (archaic)
- successful – succesful, successfull, sucessful
- supersede – supercede
- synonymous- synonomous, synononmous
- religious – religous, religius
- repetition – repitition
- restaurant – restarant, restaraunt
- rhyme – rime
- rhythm – rythm, rythem
- secretary – secratary, secretery
- seize – sieze
- separate – seperate
Conclusion
We have been able to find out the Top 100 Commonly Misspelled Words. We also looked at some of the reasons why these words are misspelled and finally pointed out how to correctly spell these words. Did you find this helpful? Let us know in the comment box below and we shall be happy to hear from you.
WoW! Common sense isn’t always common. Nice article!
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