Most common misspellings in English
List of the most misspelled words in English
Most common misspellings in English – the list
The correctly spelled version of the word you will find to the left, and you will find the misspelled version to the right in the list of the most misspelled words in English. The words are listed in no particular order.
- absence – absense, absance
- acceptable – acceptible
- accidentally/accidently – accidentaly
- accommodate – accomodate, acommodate
- accommodation – accomodation
- achieve – acheive
- acknowledge – acknowlege, aknowledge
- acquaintance – acquaintence, aquaintance
- acquire – aquire, adquire
- acquit – aquit
- acreage – acrage, acerage
- address – adress
- adultery – adultary
- advisable – adviseable, advizable
- affect – effect
- aggression – agression
- aggressive – agressive
- allegiance – allegaince, allegience, alegiance
- almost – allmost
- a lot – alot (must be two words)
- amateur – amatuer, amature
- annually – anually, annualy
- apparent – apparant, aparent
- arctic – artic
- argument – arguement
- atheist – athiest
- available – avalable
- 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
- Caribbean – Carribean
- category – catagory
- caught – cauhgt, caugt
- cemetery – cemetary, cematery
- changeable – changable
- chief – cheif
- chihuahua – chiwawa
- colleague – collaegue, collegue
- collectible – collectable
- 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
- definite – 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
- fiery – firey
- fluorescent – flourescent
- foreign – foriegn
- friend – freind
- fulfil – fullfil (American: fulfill)
- gauge – guage
- grateful – gratefull, greatful
- guarantee – garantee, garentee, garanty
- guidance – guidence
- harass – harrass
- height – heighth, heigth
- hierarchy – heirarchy
- hors d’oeuvres – hors derves, ordeurves
- humorous – humerous
- hygiene – hygene, hygine, hiygeine, higeine, hygeine
- hypocrisy/hypocrite – hipocrit
- ignorance – ignorence
- imitate – immitate
- immediately – imediately
- independent – independant
- indispensable – indispensible
- inoculate – innoculate
- intelligence – inteligence, intelligance
- jewelry (UK: jewellery) – jewelery
- judgment – judgement (issue in the U.S.)
- kernel – kernal, distinct from homophone colonel
- leisure – liesure
- liaison – liason
- library – libary, liberry
- license – lisence (US always license, UK noun licence)
- lightning – lightening
- lose – loose
- maintenance – maintainance, maintnance
- medieval – medeval, medevil, mideval
- memento – momento
- millennium – millenium, milennium
- miniature – miniture
- minuscule – miniscule
- mischievous – mischievious, mischevous, mischevious (The spelling “mischievious” and the corresponding pronunciation are still considered non-standard despite being current and existing since at least the 16th century.)
- misspell – mispell, misspel
- necessary – neccessary, necessery
- niece – neice
- neighbor – nieghbor
- noticeable – noticable
- occasion – occassion
- occasionally – occasionaly, occassionally
- occurrence – occurrance, occurence
- occurred – occured
- omission – ommision, omision
- original – orignal
- outrageous – outragous
- parliament – parliment
- pastime – passtime, pasttime
- perceive – percieve
- perseverance – perseverence
- personnel – personell, personel
- plagiarize – plagerize
- playwright – playright, playwrite
- possession – posession, possesion
- potatoes – potatos
- precede – preceed
- presence – presance
- principle – principal
- priority – prioirity
- privilege – privelege, priviledge
- professor – professer
- promise – promiss
- pronunciation – pronounciation
- proof – prufe
- prophecy (as noun) – prophesy (valid as verb)
- publicly – publically
- quarantine – quarentine
- queue – que (from Bar-B-Que)
- questionnaire – questionaire, questionnair
- readable – readible
- really – realy
- receive – recieve
- receipt – reciept
- recommend – recomend, reccommend
- referred – refered
- reference – referance, refrence
- relevant – relevent, revelant
- religious – religous, religius
- repetition – repitition
- restaurant – restarant, restaraunt
- rhyme – rime, ryme
- rhythm – rythm, rythem
- secretary – secratary, secretery
- seize – sieze
- separate – seperate
- sergeant – sargent
- similar – similer
- skilful – skilfull (American: skillful)
- speech – speach, speeche (archaic)
- successful – succesful, successfull, sucessful
- supersede – supercede
- surprise – suprise, surprize
- their – there, they’re
- tomatoes – tomatos
- tomorrow – tommorrow
- twelfth – twelth
- tyranny – tyrany
- underrate – underate
- until – untill
- upholstery – upholstry
- usable/useable – usible
- vacuum – vaccuum, vaccum, vacume
- vehicle – vehical
- vicious – visious
- weather – wether
- weird – wierd
- welfare – wellfare, welfair
- whether – wether
- wilful – wilfull (American: willful)
- withhold – withold
- writing – writting, writeing
A list of the most misspelled words in the English language. A list of the most common misspellings – by Spellhow.com.