commonly misspelled words
Commonly Misspelled Words
There are a myriad of words which people tend to misspell. This article will give you some of the most commonly misspelled words in English.
'Mississippi', 'miscellaneous', 'maneuver', 'lieutenant', etc., are famous examples of commonly misspelled words in English language. In fact, while I am writing this article, I have misspelled the word 'misspelled', thrice! Most people have a tendency to spell words depending on how the words sound. For instance, if someone say a word which may sound like 'leftenunt', he may spell it in the same way it sounds, i.e., 'leftenunt'. However, the actual spelling of this word is 'lieutenant'. The same goes with the word 'champagne'. It is actually pronounced as 'shampeyn', but if we go by the spelling, it will sound something else; funny actually. I hope you are able to grasp the idea. The below list will help you understand better.
Words Incorrectly Spelled by Most
Letter A
- Absence
- Abundance
- Accomplish
- Accumulate
- Acquaintance
- Address
- Advertisement
- Alleged
- Advise
- Apartment
- Attendance
- Believe
- Bellwether
- Balloonbarbecue
- Bargain
- Basically
- Beginning
- Belief
- Beneficial
- Boundaries
- Business
- Calendar
- Candidate
- Changeable
- Characteristic
- Collectible
- Conceivable
- Condescend
- Conscientious
- Consistent
- Continuous
- Controlled
- Controversial
- Courteous
- Criticize
- Daiquiri
- Deceive
- Dependent
- Descend
- Dilemma
- Disappearance
- Disastrous
- Dispensable
- Dissatisfied
- Drunkenness
- Ecstasy
- Eligible
- Embarrass
- Encyclopedia
- Environment
- Especially
- Espresso
- Exaggerate
- Excellence
- Existence
- Exuberance
- Exhilarate
- Fallacious
- February
- Fictitious
- Fluorescent
- Forfeit
- Foresee
- Fourth
- Fuelling
- Fulfill
- Forty
- Gable
- Gabon
- Gadget
- Gaiter
- Gallamine
- Grievous
- Guerrilla
- Gall gnat
- Gauguin
- Ghoulish
- Gymnasium
- Handkerchief
- Haphazard
- Hieroglyphic
- Heinous
- Hemorrhage
- Hesitancy
- Hoarse
- Hypocrisy
- Hypocrite
- Hemophilia
- Harmonization
- Hygienic
- Idiosyncrasy
- Illegal
- Immediately
- Inoculate
- Irrelevant
- Irresistible
- Idiotically
- Idiosyncrasy
- Idolatry
- Idolization
- Idiomatically
- Jackknife
- Jackscrew
- Jaboticaba
- Jacobean
- Jadeite
- Jacquard
- Jamaican
- Jakobson
- Jalapeno
- Jinx
- Kaleidoscope
- Keenness
- Kerosene
- Kilobyte
- Kinfolk
- Kink
- Kiosk
- Kleptomaniac
- Knapsack
- Knowledgeable
- Legitimate
- Lieutenant
- Luxury
- Loose
- Laboratory
- Lacerate
- Lacquer
- Lamentable
- Languish
- Laryngitis
- Maintenance
- Maneuver
- Minuscule
- Miniature
- Millionaire
- Misspelled
- Materialistic
- Mausoleum
- Mawkish
- Mayonnaise
- Necessity
- Nuisance
- Narcissism
- Naturalize
- Necessitate
- Neurologist
- Nineteen
- Nomadic
- Nomenclature
- Noxious
- Occasionally
- Optimism
- Optimistic
- Outrageous
- Orchestration
- Objectionable
- Obnoxiously
- Obscenity
- Obsolescence
- Orthodontics
- Parallel
- Permissible
- Perseverance
- Personal
- Personnel
- Precedence
- Prevalent
- Periphery
- Pacifism
- Perpetuate
- Questionnaire
- Quantitative
- Quintessence
- Quadrangle
- Quarrelsome
- Quiche
- Quizzical
- Quiet
- Quite
- Quotient
- Receipt
- Remembrance
- Reminiscence
- Rheumatism
- Ridiculous
- Radiance
- Radiotherapy
- Recurrence
- Reenactment
- Reflexive
- Sacrilegious
- Scenery
- Sadistically
- Salmonella
- Secretary
- Sergeant
- Siege
- Simultaneous
- Souvenir
- Temperamental
- Taiwanese
- Tambourine
- Terminology
- Theoretician
- Tournament
- Tomorrow
- Thermonuclear
- Thoroughfare
- Toxicology
- Ubiquitous
- Ultimatum
- Unanimous
- Undernourished
- Unemployment
- Uniquely
- Unquestionable
- Unprecedented
- Unnecessarily
- Vagueness
- Vandalism
- Vehemently
- Venerable
- Vengeance
- Vigilance
- Vindictive
- Virtuoso
- Vociferous
- Vulnerability
- Warmongering
- Weather
- Weightlessness
- Werewolf
- Whimsical
- Wholehearted
- Widespread
- Windshield
- Whether
- Xenophobia
- Xylophone
- Xerox
- Xenophobic
- Yarmulke
- Yearning
- Yiddish
- Yield
- Yippee
- Yonder
- Youngster
- Yucky
- Yuppie
- Yourselves
- Zealous
- Zodiac
- Zoological
- Zoologist
- Zucchini