{"id":1834,"date":"2020-11-10T22:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T21:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/blog\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2020-11-10T22:00:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T21:00:22","slug":"commonly-misspelled-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/blog\/commonly-misspelled-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonly Misspelled Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Misspelled words in the English language are very common, which is one reason for the use of electronic dictionaries on computers and phones. Often, the dictionary on a device will automatically correct misspellings without the user even being aware the dictionary is doing the work of spelling hard words. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/blog\/why-spelling-is-more-important-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Correct spelling<\/a> in English is important so that the meaning of a word isn&#8217;t lost on the reader. It&#8217;s interesting which English words are hard words to spell, as many of them are words that are frequently spoken and read.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Most Misspelled Words<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The words in this list are the most often misspelled words in English, according to the Oxford dictionary. Why is the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/blog\/hard-words-to-spell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> correct spelling of these English words<\/a> so difficult? One reason is that correct English spelling can be hard to remember without using a dictionary as a reference.<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Accommodate<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spellers often forget this word contains <\/span><b>two c&#8217;s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>two m&#8217;s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the correct spelling <\/span><b>accommodate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Wich<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is such a common word, it&#8217;s hard to believe this word is one that is often spelled incorrectly. The correct spelling is <\/span><b>which<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Recieve<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s easy to see this word and think it&#8217;s correct, but to spell this word correctly you need to remember the old saying for reference: <\/span><b>i before e except after c<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The correct spelling of this word is <\/span><b>receive<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Until<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The double <\/span><b>l&#8217;s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> make this word one of the more surprising on the list. Remove the <\/span><b>double l<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the correct spelling <\/span><b>until<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Occurred<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is another one that confuses people will double letters. To spell this one correctly, you need <\/span><b>two c&#8217;s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>two r&#8217;s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the correct spelling<\/span><b> occurred.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Separate<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This one should have <\/span><b>two a&#8217;s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> instead of <\/span><b>two e&#8217;s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and is correctly spelled <\/span><b>separate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Government\/Environment<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many English writers forget that these two words have an <\/span><b>n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the middle and are spelled <\/span><b>government<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>environment<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Definitely<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lot of people see this word and think it looks correct, but there is no <\/span><b>a <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and there are <\/span><b>two i&#8217;s. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The correct spelling is<\/span><b> definitely.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Pharoah<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This word does have <\/span><b>two a&#8217;s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but not in the order above. This word is correctly spelled <\/span><b>pharaoh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Pubically<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The double <\/span><b>l&#8217;s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in this word are incorrect, and hopefully, a good speller would see that the correct way to spell this word is to turn the <\/span><b>two l&#8217;s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> into one for the correct spelling <\/span><b>publicly<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Business<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Business<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> seems like an easy word to spell, but people often get confused by the double letters and are not sure which letter should be used two times. The correct spelling is <\/span><b>business<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Freind<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To spell this word correctly, remember the<\/span><b> i before e except after c<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> rule applies for the correct spelling <\/span><b>friend<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Most commonly misspelled words list<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Below is a list of the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grammar.com\/frequently-misspelled-words\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">most commonly misspelled words<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in English according to grammar.com. Most English speakers learn the correct spelling of these words in school, but what they learn in school is often forgotten.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>A Words<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a lot, a while, awhile, ability, accommodate, accommodation, accompanied, accomplish, accordion, accumulate, accumulation, accuse, accustomed, ache, achieve, achievement, acknowledge, acquaintance, acquainted, acquire, acquit, acquitted, across, address, addressed, adequate, advantage, advantageous, advertise, advertisement, advice, advisable, advise, advisor, aerial, affect, affectionate, aficionado, again, against, aggravate, aggressive, agree, ail, air, aisle, ale, alight, all ready, all right, alleged, all together, almost, already, alright, although, altogether, always, amateur, appreciate, appreciation, approach, appropriate, approval, approve, approximate, arctic, argue<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>B Words<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bachelor, balance, balloon, barbecue, bargain, basic, basically, beautiful, because, become, before, beggar, beginning, being, belief, believable, believe, beneficial, benefit, benefited, between, bicycle, bight, biscuit, bite, board, bored, borrow, bottle, bottom, bough, bought, boundaries, boundary, brake, breadth, breath, breathe, brilliant, broccoli, brought, building, bulletin, bureau, burial, buried, bury, bushes, business, byte<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>C Words<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Caesar, cafeteria, calculator, calendar, camouflage, campaign, candidate, cantaloupe, capital, capitol, captain, carburetor, career, careful, careless, Caribbean, carriage, chauvinism, chief, chili, chocolaty, choose, chose, cigarette, circumstance, citizen, climbed, cloth, clothes, clothing, coarse, coffee, coliseum, collect, collectible, college, colonel, column, comedy, comfortable, coming, commemorate, commission, commitment, committed, committee, communicate, company, comparative, compel, competent, competition, completely, complement, compliment, conceal, concede, conceit, condemn, condescend, condition, conference, confident, congratulate, congratulations, connoisseur, conquer, conscience, conscientious, conscious, consensus, consequence, consequently, considerable, consistency, consistent, continual, continuous, controlled, controversial, controversy<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>D Words<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">daily, daiquiri, Dalmatian, daughter, daybreak, death, debt, deceive, December, decent, deception, decide, decision, decisive, definitely, delicious, dependent, deposit, derelict, descend, descent, describe, description, desert, desiccate, desirable, despair, desperate, dessert, destruction, determine, deterrence, develop, development, device, devise, dictator, dictionary, died, difference, different, dilemma, dining, dinner, direction, disappear, disappearance, disappoint, disappointment, disapproval, disapprove, disastrous, discipline, discover, discriminate, disease, dispensable, dissatisfied<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>E Words<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">earnest, easily, easy, ecstasy, ecstatic, education, effect, efficiency, efficient, eight, eighth, either, eligibility, eligible, eliminate, email, embarrass, embarrassment, embezzle, embezzler, emergency, emperor, emphasis, emphasize, enclosure, encouragement, encouraging, endeavor, enemy, engineer, English, enormous, enough, entirely, entrance, entrepreneur, environment, equipment, equipped, equivalent, err, especially, essential, evening, evident, ewe, exaggerate, exaggeration, examine, exceed, excellence, excellent, except, exceptional, exercise, exhaust, exhausted, exhaustion, exhilarate, exhilaration, experiment, explanation, extreme, extremely, exuberance<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>F Words<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">facility, facsimile, factory, fallacious, fallacy, familiar, farther, fascinate, fascinating, fatigue, feasible, feat, February, feet, fiat, fictitious, fiery, finally, financial, financially, financier, flabbergast, flight, flotation, flourish, fluorescent, forcibly, forego, forehead, foreign, foresee, forfeit, forgo, formal, former, formerly, fortunate, forty, fought, fourteen, fourth, frequent, friend, fright, frightening, fueling, fulfill, fundamental, fundamentally, further<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>G Words<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gallon, garden, gardener, gauge, general, generally, genius, gnat, gnaw, government, governor, grammar, grateful, great, grievance, grievous, grocery, gross, guarantee, guardian, guerrilla, guess, guidance, guttural<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>H Words<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">half, hammer, handkerchief, handfuls, handsful, happily, happiness, harass, healthy, hear, heard, heavy, height, heinous, heir, hemorrhage, here, heroes, heroine, hesitancy, hideous, himself, hindrance, hoarse, holiday, homepage, hopeless, hoping, horrific, hors d&#8217;oeuvre, hospital, humorous, hurried, hurrying, hygiene, hypocrisy, hypocrite<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>I Words<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ideally, idiosyncrasy, ignorance, imaginary, imbecile, imitate, imitation, immediately, immigrant, implement, inadvertent, incidental, incidentally, increase, incredible, independence, independent, indicted, indispensable, inevitable, influence, influential, information, ingenious, ingenuous, initiate, innocence, inoculate, inquiry, insistent, instead, instinct, insurance, integrity, intellectual, intelligence, intercede, interest, interfere, interference, interpreted, interrupt<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>J Words<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">January, jealous, jealousy, journal, judgment, judicial<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>K Words<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">kindergarten, kitchen, knee, knew, knickers, knife, knit, knock, know, knowledge, knuckle<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>L Words<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">labor, laboratory, laid, language, later, latter, laugh, led, legitimate, leisure, length, lesson, liaison, library, license, lieutenant, light, lightening, lightning, likelihood, likely, liquefy, listen, literal, literature, livelihood, loaf, loneliness, loose, lose, losing, lovely, loyal, loyalty, luxury<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>M Words<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">magazine, maintain, maintenance, manageable, maneuver, manufacture, marriage, married, marry, marshmallow, match, material, mathematics, measure, medicine, medieval, memento, might, millennium, million, millionaire, miniature, minimum, minuscule, minutes, minutia, miracle, miscellaneous, mischief, mischievous, misogyny, missile, misspell, misspelled, mistake, momentous, monkey, monotonous, mosquito, mosquitoes, mountain, mournful, murmur, muscle, mysterious, mystery<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>N Words<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">narrative, natural, naturally, nauseated, nauseous, necessary, necessity, needle, negligence, neighbor, neither, neutron, newspaper, newsstand, nickel, niece, night, ninety, ninth, no one, noticeable, nowadays, nuisance<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>O Words<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">obedience, obedient, obstacle, occasion, occasional, occasionally, occur, occurred, occurrence, ocean, official, omission, omit, omitted, once, online, on-line, operate, opinion, opponent, opportune, opportunity, oppression, optimism, optimist, optimistic, orchestra, ordinarily, origin, original, oscillate, ought, ounce, outrageous, overcoat, overrun,<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>P Words<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">paid, pamphlet, panicky, parallel, parallelism, parliament, particular, partner, pastime, patience, pavilion, peace, peaceable, pear, peculiar, pencil, penetrate, peninsula, people, perceive, perception, perseverance, persevere, persistence, persistent, personal, personality, personnel, perspiration, persuade, persuasion, pertain, pharaoh, physical, physician, picture, piece, pigeon, pilgrimage, pistachio, pitiful, plagiarize, pneumonia, pocket, potatoes, practical, practically, prairie, precede, precedence, preceding, precise, predictable, prefer, preference, preferential, preferred, prejudice, presumptuous, prevalent, primitive, principal, principle, printout, psychiatrist, psychology, publicly<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>Q Words<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">quality, quantity, quarantine, quarreling, quart, quarter, questionnaire, quiet, quite, quizzes<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>R Words<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">raise, raspberry, realistic, realistically, realize, really, reason, rebellion, recede, receipt, receive, recipe, recognize, recommend, recuperate, reference, referred, referring, refrigerator, rehearsal, reign, relevant, relieve, relieving, religious, remedy, remembrance, reminisce, reminiscence, rendezvous, renovate, renowned, repetition, representative, resemblance, reservoir, resistance, resource, respectability, responsibility, restaurant, rheumatism, rhythm, rhythmical, ridiculous<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>S Words<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sacrifice, sacrilegious, safety, salary, sandal, sandwich, satellite, Saturday, savvy, scarcely, scary, scene, scenery, scents, schedule, science, scientific, scissors, season, secede, secretary, seen, seize, seminar, sense, sensible, sentence, separate, separation, septuagenarian, sergeant, service, several, severely, shepherd, sheriff, shining, shinning, shish kebab, should, shoulder, shriek, siege, sight, signal, significance, significant, similar, similarity, simile, simply, simultaneous, sincerely, site, skiing, souvenir, special, specifically, specified, specimen, speech, sponsor, spontaneous, stationary, stationery, statue, statute, stomach, straight, strategy, strength, strenuous, stretch, striking, stubbornness, studying, subordinate, subpoena, substantial, subtle<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>T Words<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tangible, tariff, technical, technique, temperament, temperamental, temperature, tenant, tendency, tenement, tenet, their, themselves, theories, there, therefor, therefore, they&#8217;re, thorough, though, thought, threshold, through, tight, together, tomorrow, tongue, too, tough, tournament, toward, towards, tragedy, transferred, transferring, treasury, tremendous, tries, truly, twelfth, twelve, tyranny<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>U Words<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ukulele, unanimous, undoubtedly, unforgettable, unique, unnecessary, until, usable, usage, useful, usual, usually, utilization,<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>V Words<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vacuum, valley, valuable, variety, vegetable, vein, vengeance, versatile, vicinity, vicious, view, vigilant, village, villain, violence, virtue, visible, vision, visitor, voice, volume<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>W Words<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">waist, warrant, warrior, weak, weal, wear, weather, website, Wednesday, week, weigh, weird, wheel, wherever, whether, which, while, whole, wholly, whose, withdrawal, woman, women, worthwhile, would, wrap, wretched, wrinkle, write<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>X, Y, Z Words<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">xylophone<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">yacht, yield, young, your you&#8217;re<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zeitgeist<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many of the words above will not appear to be hard spelling words to a native English speaker, but correct spelling can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/blog\/hard-words-to-spell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more difficult<\/a> than it seems.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Misspelled words in the English language are very common, which is one reason for the use of 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