Sunday, May 5, 2013

200 Most Commonly Misspelled Words

Check out the list below and take a quick quiz to see how you fare with your American English spelling.


absence
disappoint
intelligence
prejudice
accidentally
disastrous
interesting
prevalent
accommodate
discipline
irresistible
privilege
accumulate
dissatisfied
its / it’s
pronunciation
achieve
drunkenness
jewelry
questionnaire
acquaintance
effect
judgment
recede
acquire
eighth
kindergarten
receipt
acquitted
eligible
knowledge
receive
adapt/adopt
eliminate
laboratory
recommend
advise/advice
embarrass
leisure
reference
amateur
eminent
license
referred
analysis
encouragement
loneliness
referring
analyze
 encouraging
lose
religious
annual
environment
losing
repetition
apparatus
equipped
maintenance
restaurant
arguing
especially
maneuver
rhyme
argument
exaggerate
marriage
rhythm
ascend
exceed
mathematics
ridiculous
athletic
excellence
millennium
sacrifice
attendance
exercise
miniature
sacrilegious
battalion
exhilarate
mischievous
schedule
beginning
existence
mysterious
scissors
belief
existent
ninety
seize
believe
experience
noticeable
separate
beneficial
familiar
occasion
sergeant
benefited
fascinate
occasionally
severely
boundaries
fiery
occur
similar
business
foreign
occurred
sincerely
cemetery
forty
occurrence
sophomore
changeable
fourth
official
specifically
choose
frantically
omitted
succeed
chose
gauge
parallel
succession
commission
generally
paralysis
technique
committed
grandeur
paralyze
temperamental
committee
grateful
particular
tendency
compelled
grievous
pastime
their/they're
conceivable
harass
performance
to/too
conferred
height
permissible
tomorrow
conscience
hierarchy
perseverance
transferring
conscientious
hindrance
personnel
traveled
conscious
humorous
picnicking
twelfth
control
hypocrisy
possession
tyranny
controversial
hypocrite
possibility
unanimous
controversy
immediate
possible
undoubtedly
criticize
incidentally
practically
unnecessary
deferred
incredible
precede
usually
definitely
independence
precedence
village
desperate
indispensable
preferable
villain
dictionary
inevitable
preference
weather
disappearance
intellectual
preferred
weird

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1 comment:

  1. Can you think of any other common words not on the list?
    Add them at the comments box.

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