100 Words That are Commonly Misspelled
English spelling can be tricky, with numerous exceptions and irregularities that make it difficult to remember the correct spelling of words. Even proficient writers can make mistakes, and some words are more commonly misspelled than others. Commonly misspelled words often include longer, more complex words or words with multiple consonants or vowels. Spelling mistakes can detract from the clarity and professionalism of your writing, so it’s important to take the time to check and correct your spelling. In this era of digital communication, spell-check and autocorrect features can be helpful, but they’re not foolproof and may not catch all errors. Therefore, it’s a good idea to be aware of the most commonly misspelled words to improve your spelling accuracy.
Here are 100 words that are commonly misspelled:
- Accommodate
- Acquire
- A lot
- Alright
- Amateurs
- Argument
- Atheist
- Beginning
- Believe
- Calendar
- Cemetery
- Colonel
- Committed
- Conscious
- Definitely
- Desperate
- Dilemma
- Disappear
- Embarrassment
- Environment
- Exaggerate
- Fascinating
- February
- Foreign
- Government
- Harassment
- Hierarchy
- Humorous
- Ignorance
- Immediately
- Independent
- Indispensable
- Interesting
- Its/it’s
- Jealousy
- Judgment
- Knowledge
- Liaison
- License
- Lose/loose
- Maintenance
- Manoeuvre
- Mediterranean
- Memento
- Necessary
- Niece
- Ninth
- Noticeable
- Occurrence
- Officially
- Onomatopoeia
- Opponent
- Parallel
- Pastime
- Perseverance
- Possession
- Privilege
- Pronunciation
- Psychology
- Publicly
- Quiet
- Receipt
- Recommend
- Religious
- Restaurant
- Rhyme
- Rhythm
- Sincerely
- Supersede
- Successful
- Sufficient
- Their/there/they’re
- Thorough
- Tomorrow
- Tongue
- Tragedy
- Truly
- Twelfth
- Unnecessary
- Until
- Vacuum
- Vegetable
- Vicious
- Weird
- Whether
- Woman
- Write/right
- Wrist
- Xylophone
- Yearning
- Yield
- Yolk
- Yourself
- Zealot
- Zenith
- Zest
- Zucchini
- Deceive
- Broccoli
- Caramel
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