In this article, we are going to take a look at the 100 most commonly misspelled words in English. The English language is made of 350 different languages, consisting of 273,000 words altogether. And since English is the 3rd most spoken language in the whole entire world, you would expect it to be fairly easy. Especially since over the years, the language itself has become more simple.
Commonly Misspelled Words
However, as we may all be aware, that’s not quite the case. With so many different words to remember, it can feel like an impossible job to remember how to spell every single one. Especially, since many words aren’t even spelled as they are pronounced, for example, the word ‘baloney’ is actually spelled ‘bologna’.
So, if you find yourself misspelling certain words, don’t be embarrassed because I can assure you, you’re definitely not alone. In fact, the Oxford Dictionary even shared that misspelling words happen way more often than you may think, however, it’s very important to learn the proper way of spelling to save yourself from any awkwardness when it comes to any professional situations.
Let’s take a closer look at the most commonly misspelled words in the English language…
100 Most Commonly Misspelled Words
1. Definitely
Commonly misspelled as: definitly, definately and defiantly.
2. Caribbean
Commonly misspelled as: Carribean.
3. Separate
Commonly misspelled as: seperate.
4. Humorous
Commonly misspelled as: humerous.
5. Guarantee
Commonly misspelled as: garantee, garentee and garanty.
6. Until
Commonly misspelled as: untill.
7. Occasionally
Commonly misspelled as: occasionaly and occassionally.
8. Immediately
Commonly misspelled as: imediately.
9. Questionnaire
Commonly misspelled as: questionaire and questionnair.
10. Vacuum
Commonly misspelled as: vaccuum, vaccum and vacume.
11. Friend
Commonly misspelled as: freind.
12. Exhilarate
Commonly misspelled as: exilerate.
13. Disappoint
Commonly misspelled as: dissapoint.
14. Library
Commonly misspelled as: libary and liberry.
15. Beginning
Commonly misspelled as: begining.
16. Underrate
Commonly misspelled as: underate.
17. Hygiene
Commonly misspelled as: hygene, hygine, hiygeine, higeine and hygeine.
18. Equipment
Commonly misspelled as: equiptment.
19. Column
Commonly misspelled as: colum.
20. Acknowledge
Commonly misspelled as: acknowlege and aknowledge.
21. Wednesday
Commonly misspelled as: Wenesday.
22. Embarrass
Commonly misspelled as: embarass.
23. Millennium
Commonly misspelled as: millenium and milennium.
24. Usable
Commonly misspelled as: usible and useable.
25. Hypocrite
Commonly misspelled as: hipocrit.
26. Fascinating
Commonly misspelled as: facinating.
27. Tomorrow
Commonly misspelled as: tommorow and tommorrow.
28. Mischievous
Commonly misspelled as: mischievious, mischevous and mischevious.
29. Lightning
Commonly misspelled as: lightening.
30. Twelfth
Commonly misspelled as: twelth.
31. Business
Commonly misspelled as: buisness.
32. Height
Commonly misspelled as: heighth and heigth.
33. Guidance
Commonly misspelled as: guidence.
34. Welfare
Commonly misspelled as: wellfare and welfair.
35. Misspell
Commonly misspelled as: mispell and misspel.
36. Vicious
Commonly misspelled as: visious.
37. Cemetery
Commonly misspelled as: cemetary and cematery.
38. Maintenance
Commonly misspelled as: maintainance and maintnance.
39. Hierarchy
Commonly misspelled as: heirarchy.
40. Vehicle
Commonly misspelled as: vehical.
41. Relevant
Commonly misspelled as: relevent and revelant.
42. Beautiful
Commonly misspelled as: beatuful.
43. Desperate
Commonly misspelled as: desparate.
44. Lose
Commonly misspelled as: loose.
45. Grateful
Commonly misspelled as: gratefull and greatful.
46. Writing
Commonly misspelled as: writting and writeing.
47. Disastrous
Commonly misspelled as: disasterous.
48. Upholstery
Commonly misspelled as: upholstry.
49. Medieval
Commonly misspelled as: medeval, medevil and mideval.
50. Necessary
Commonly misspelled as: neccessary and necessery.
51. Gauge
Commonly misspelled as: guage.
52. Whether
Commonly misspelled as: wether.
53. Restaurant
Commonly misspelled as: restarant and restaraunt.
54. Quarantine
Commonly misspelled as: quarentine.
55. Bellwether
Commonly misspelled as: bellweather.
56. Committed
Commonly misspelled as: commited and comitted.
57. Successful
Commonly misspelled as: succesful, successfull and sucessful.
58. Jewellery
Commonly misspelled as: jewelry and jewelery.
59. Occurrence
Commonly misspelled as: occurrance and occurence.
60. Becoming
Commonly misspelled as: becomeing.
61. Acquaintance
Commonly misspelled as: acquaintence and aquaintance.
62. Fluorescent
Commonly misspelled as: flourescent.
63. Apparent
Commonly misspelled as: apparant, aparent, apparrent and aparrent.
64. Neighbour
Commonly misspelled as: nieghbor.
65. Existence
Commonly misspelled as: existance.
66. Believe
Commonly misspelled as: beleive.
67. Weather
Commonly misspelled as: wether and whether.
68. Experience
Commonly misspelled as: experiance.
69. Memento
Commonly misspelled as: momento.
70. Conscious
Commonly misspelled as: concious and consious.
71. Miniature
Commonly misspelled as: miniture.
72. Wilful
Commonly misspelled as: wilfull and willful.
73. Absence
Commonly misspelled as: absense, absentse, abcense and absance.
74. Queue
Commonly misspelled as: que.
75. Definite
Commonly misspelled as: definate and definit.
76. Leisure
Commonly misspelled as: liesure.
77. Drunkenness
Commonly misspelled as: drunkeness.
78. Pronunciation
Commonly misspelled as: pronounciation.
79. Their
Commonly misspelled as: there and they’re.
80. Independent
Commonly misspelled as: independant.
81. Tomatoes
Commonly misspelled as: tomatos.
82. Reference
Commonly misspelled as: referance and refrence.
83. Privilege
Commonly misspelled as: privelege and priviledge.
84. Intelligence
Commonly misspelled as: inteligence and intelligance.
85. Noticeable
Commonly misspelled as: noticable.
86. Colleague
Commonly misspelled as: collaegue and collegue.
87. Surprise
Commonly misspelled as: suprise and surprize.
88. Recommend
Commonly misspelled as: recomend and reccommend.
89. Ignorance
Commonly misspelled as: ignorence.
90. Omission
Commonly misspelled as: ommision and omision.
91. Camouflage
Commonly misspelled as: camoflage and camoflague.
92. Dilemma
Commonly misspelled as: dilenma and dillemma.
93. Advisable
Commonly misspelled as: adviseable and advizable.
94. Possession
Commonly misspelled as: posession and possesion.
95. Outrageous
Commonly misspelled as: outragous and outragious.
96. Secretary
Commonly misspelled as: secratary and secretery.
97. Allegiance
Commonly misspelled as: allegaince, allegience and alegiance.
98. February
Commonly misspelled as: Febuary.
99. Accommodate
Commonly misspelled as: accomodate and acommodate.
100. Amateur
Commonly misspelled as: amatuer and amature.
Final Thoughts
That is 100 of the most commonly misspelled words in the English language, hopefully, this list helped you with correcting any misspellings you may be currently struggling with or at least make you feel better for knowing how all of these words are correctly spelled.
If you know you struggle with remembering how to spell certain words correctly, a few things you could do to improve your spelling skills are: using the mnemonics method, learning the rules of English spelling, and write down any words you find hard to spell and look through them daily to help improve your memory.
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