Top 100 Commonly Misspelled Words & Their Correct Spellings

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

1. 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.
2. Confusion between S & C. For example, people use senCe instead of senSe, abCense for abSence, conSede for conCede. etc.
3. 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.
4. 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.

1. absence – abcense, absance
2. acceptable – acceptible
3. accidentally/accidently – accidentaly
4. accommodate – accomodate, acommodate
5. achieve – acheive
6. acknowledge – acknowlege, aknowledg
7. acquaintance – acquaintence, aquaintance
8. acquire – aquire, adquire
9. acquit – aquit
10. acreage – acrage, acerage
11. argument – arguement
12. atheist – athiest
13. awful – awfull, aweful
14. because – becuase
15. becoming – becomeing
16. beginning – begining
17. believe – beleive
18. bellwether – bellweather
19. buoy/buoyant – bouy/bouyant
20. business – buisness
21. calendar – calender
22. camouflage – camoflage, camoflague
23. capitol – capital (both words exist, but are distinct)
24. Caribbean – Carribean
25. category – catagory
26. caught – cauhgt, caugt
27. cemetery – cemetary, cematery
28. changeable – changable
29. chief – cheif
30. colleague – collaegue, collegue
31. column – colum
32. coming – comming
33. committed – commited, comitted
34. concede – conceed
35. congratulate – congradulate
36. conscientious – consciencious
37. conscious – concious, consious
38. consensus – concensus
39. controversy – contraversy
40. coolly – cooly
41. daiquiri – dacquiri, daquiri
42. deceive – decieve
43. efinite – definate, definit
44. definitely – definitly, definately, defiantly
45. desperate – desparate
46. difference – diffrence
47. dilemma – dilema
48. disappoint – disapoint
49. disastrous – disasterous
50. drunkenness – drunkeness
51. dumbbell – dumbell
52. embarrass – embarass
53. equipment – equiptment
54. exceed – excede
55. exhilarate – exilerate
56. existence – existance
57. experience – experiance
58. extreme – extreem
59. fascinating – facinating
60. harass – harrass
61. height – heighth, heigth
62. hierarchy – heirarchy
63. hors d’oeuvres – hors derves, ordeurves
64. humorous – humerous
65. hygiene – hygene, hygine, hiygeine, higeine, hygeine
66. hypocrisy/hypocrite – hipocrit
67. niece – neice
68. neighbor – nieghbor
69. occasion – occassion
70. occasionally – occasionaly, occassionally
71. occurrence – occurrance, occurence
72. omission – ommision, omision
73. original – orignal
74. outrageous – outragous
75. potatoes – potatos
76. precede – preceed
77. presence – presance
78. principle – principal
79. privilege – privelege, priviledge
80. pronunciation – pronounciation
81. their – there, they’re
82. tomatoes – tomatos
83. tomorrow – tommorow, tommorrow
84. tyranny – tyrany
85. underrate – underate
86. sergeant – sargent
87. similar – similer
88. skilful – skilfull (American: skillful)
89. speech – speach, speeche (archaic)
90. successful – succesful, successfull, sucessful
91. supersede – supercede
92. synonymous- synonomous, synononmous
93. religious – religous, religius
94. repetition – repitition
95. restaurant – restarant, restaraunt
96. rhyme – rime
97. rhythm – rythm, rythem
98. secretary – secratary, secretery
99. seize – sieze
100. 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.