Unlimited misspellings

Unlimited misspellings

Because many words can be extended with prefixes (such as "un-" or "anti-" or "re-") or suffixes (such as "-ly" or "-ing" or "-ness"), a comprehensive list of words prone to misspelling would contain thousands of variations from combining prefixes or suffixes (or both) added to the root words. To limit the scope to common words, the top 350 words are considered (according to various sources).

Documented list of common misspellings

The following list, of about 350 words, is based on documented lists^[4][10] of the top 100, 200, or 400 most commonly misspelled words, rather than listing every conceivable misspelled word. Each word is followed by examples of misspellings:

A–B

absence – absense, absance acceptable – acceptible accidentally/accidently – accidentaly accommodate – accomodate, acommodate achieve – acheive acknowledge – acknowlege, aknowledge acquaintance – acquaintence, aquaintance acquire – aquire, adquire acquit – aquit acreage – acrage, acerage across – accross address – adress adultery – adultary[3] advertise – advertize advice – advise advisable – adviseable, advizable affect – effect[3] affordable - affortable aggression – agression, aggresion[1] alcohol – alchohol[1] allege – alege, allage[1] allegiance – allegaince, allegience, alegiance[3] almost – allmost[3] a lot – alot (must be 2 words)[4] amateur – amatuer, amature [4]

amend – ammend among – amung annually – anually, annualy apparent – apparant, aparent arctic – artic argument – arguement atheist – athiest athlete – athelete average – avrage, averege awful – awfull, aweful balance – ballance, balence basically – basicly because – becuase becoming – becomeing before – befor beginning – begining believe – beleive bellwether – bellweather[3][4] benefit – benifit buoy/buoyant – bouy/bouyant[3] breathe – breath, brethe brilliant – briliant burglar – burgler[1] business – bisness,[1] bussiness, bizness, buisness

C–D

calendar – calender[3][4] camouflage – camoflage, camoflague[3] capitol – capital[3](both words exist, but are distinct) career – carrer careful – carefull Caribbean – Carribean[3] category – catagory[3][4] caught – cauhgt, caugt[3] ceiling – cieling cemetery – cemetary,[1] cematery[3] certain – certin changeable – changable[3][4] chief – cheif[3] citizen – citezen colleague – collaegue, collegue[3] collectible – collectable[3][4] column – colum [4] comfortable - confortable coming – comming[3] committed – commited, comitted[3][4] competition – compitition concede – conceed[3] congratulate – congradulate[3] conscientious – consciencious [3][4] conscious – concious, consious [4]

consensus – concensus[1][3][4] controversy – contraversy[1] convenience – conveniance coolly – cooly[3] criticize – critecize, critisize daiquiri – dacquiri, daquiri [4] deceive – decieve[1][3] decide – dicide definite – definate,[1] definit[4] definitely – definitly,[4] definately, defiantly deposit – deposite describe - discribe desperate – desparate[1][3] develop – develope difference – diffrence[3] dilemma – dilema[3] disappear – disapear, dissapear disappoint – disapoint[1] disastrous – disasterous[3] discipline – disipline doable - dooable does – deos, dose drunkenness – drunkeness [4] dumbbell – dumbell [4] during – durring

E–H

easily – easely eighth – eigth either – iehter, ether embarrass – embarass[1][4] environment – enviroment equipped – equiped equipment – equiptment (wrong in numerous webpages)[4] exaggerate – exagerate exceed – excede [4] excellent – exellent, excelent except – exsept exercise – exercize, exersize exhausted - exausted exhilarate – exilerate [4] existence – existance [4] expect - exspect experience – experiance [4] experiment – experament explanation – explaination extreme – extreem[1] familiar – familier fascinating – facinating,[1] fasinating fiery – firey [4] finally – finaly

fluorescent – flourescent[1] foreign – foriegn [4] forty – fourty forward – foreward friend – freind[1] fulfil – fullfil (American: fulfill)[1] fundamental – fundemental gauge – guage[1][4] generally – generaly, genrally government – goverment grammar – grammer grateful – gratefull, greatful[1][4] guarantee – garantee, garentee, garanty[1][4][10] guidance – guidence [11] happiness – happyness harass – harrass[1][4] height – heighth, heigth [4] heroes – heros hierarchy – heirarchy [4] hors d'oeuvres – hors derves, ordeurves[3] humorous – humerous [4] hygiene – hygene, hygine, higeine, hygeine[3] hypocrisy/hypocrite – hipocrit[1][3]

I–K

identity – idenity, identidy ignorance – ignorence [4] imaginary – imaginery imitate – immitate[3] imitation – immitation, imitashun immediately – imediately[1][4] incidentally – incidently independent – independant [4][7] indispensable – indispensible [4] inoculate – innoculate [4] intelligence – inteligence, intelligance [4] interesting – intresting

interfere interpretation interruption – interuption irrelevant – irrelevent irritable – irritible island – iland jealous – jellous jewelry (UK: jewellery) – jewelery [4] judgment – judgement (issue in the U.S.)[4] kernel – kernal, distinct from homophone colonel[4] kindergarten - kindergarden knowledge – knowlege

L–O

laboratory – labratory leisure – liesure [4] length – lenght lesson – leson liaison – liason[1][4] library – libary, liberry [4] license – lisence[4] (US always license, UK noun licence)[1] lightning – lightening [4] loneliness – lonelyness lose – loose losing – loosing, loseing lying – lieing maintenance – maintenence, maintnance[1] maneuver – manuever, manuver (UK: manoeuvre) marriage – marrige masturbation—masterbation mathematics – mathmatics medicine – medcine[citation needed] medieval – medeval, medevil, mideval [4] memento – momento [4] millennium – millenium, milennium[1][4] miniature – miniture[1][4] minuscule – miniscule[1][4][dubious – discuss] minute – minite

mischievous – mischevous, mischevious [4] misspell – mispell, misspel[1][4] mysterious – misterius,[citation needed] misterious naturally – naturaly necessary – neccessary, necessery[1] niece – neice[1] neighbor – nieghbor [4] neither – niether noticeable – noticable [4] occasion – occassion[1] occasionally – occasionaly, occassionally [4] occurrence – occurrance, occurence [4] occurred – occured[1] official – oficial often – offen omission – ommision, omision[1] operate – oprate opportunity – oppurtunity optimism – optimisim original – orignal[1] ought outrageous – outragous[1]

P–Q

paid – payed parallel – parrallel, parellel parliament – parliment[1] particularly – particurly pastime – passtime, pasttime [4] peculiar – peculier perceive – percieve[1] perform – preform permanent – pernament perseverance – perseverence [4] personally – personaly personnel – personell, personel[4] persuade – persaude pervious - (1) pervious, (2) previous; check individually picture – pichure, pitcher piece – peice planning – planing plagiarize – plagerize[3] playwright – playright, playwrite[4] pleasant – plesant political – pollitical possession – posession, possesion[1][4] possible potatoes – potatos[1] practical – practicle

precede – preceed [4] prefer prejudice – predjudice presence – presance[1] principle – principal [4] privilege – privelege, priviledge[1][4] probably – probly professional – proffesional professor – professer[3] promise – promiss [11] pronunciation – pronounciation [4] proof – prufe [12] prophecy (as noun) – prophesy (valid as verb)[3] psychology – psycology publicly – publically[4] quantity – quanity quarantine – quarentine[3] quarter - korter queue – que (from Bar-B-Que)[3] questionnaire – questionaire, questionnair[1] quite – distinct from quiet

R–S

readable – readible [8] realize – relize, reelize really – realy[1] receive – recieve[1][4] receipt – reciept [4] recognize – reconize, reckonize recommend – recomend, reccommend[1][4] referred – refered [4] reference – referance, refrence [4] relevant – relevent, revelant[3][4] religious – religous, religius[12] repetition – repitition[12] restaurant – restarant [4] rhyme – rime, ryme [4] rhythm – rythm, rythem[1][4] ridiculous – rediculous, ridicolous sacrifice – sacrefice safety – saftey, safty scissors – sissors

secretary – secratary, secretery[1] seize – sieze[1] separate – seperate[1][4] sergeant – sargent [4] shining – shineing similar – similer,[1] simmilar, simular sincerely – sinceerly skilful – skilfull (American: skillful)[1] soldier – solider speech – speach, speeche (archaic)[12] stopping – stoping strength – strenght studying succeed – succede successful – succesful, successfull, sucessful[1] supersede - supercede [4] surely – surelly surprise – suprise, surprize[1]

T–Z

temperature – temperture temporary – temprary their – they're [4] through – thru tomatoes – tomatos[1] tomorrow – tommorrow[1] tongue – tounge toward tries – trys truly – truely, trully twelfth – twelth tyranny – tyrany underrate – underate until – untill unusual – unuseual upholstery – upholstry usable/useable – usible

using – useing usually – usualy vacuum – vaccuum, vacume [4] vegetarian – vegatarian[1] vehicle – vehical vicious – visious village – villege weather – wether weird – wierd welcome – wellcome welfare – wellfare, welfair whether – wether wilful – wilfull (American: willful) withhold – withold writing – writting, writeing