The 201 Most Commonly Misspelled Words in English

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The 201 Most Commonly Misspelled Words in English

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With a little practice, you can improve your spelling. Begin by reviewing the following list of 201 of the most commonly misspelled words in English. Then pick out those words that tend to give you problems, and make up a series of short sentences in which you use these troublesome words—spelled correctly, of course.

Commonly Misspelled Words

absence
accommodate
achieve
acquire
across

address
advertise
advice
among
apparent

argument
athlete
awful
balance
basically

becoming
before
beginning
believe
benefit

breathe
brilliant
business
calendar
careful

category
ceiling
cemetery
certain
chief

citizen
coming
competition
convenience
criticize

decide
definite
deposit
describe
desperate

develop
difference
dilemma
disappear
disappoint

discipline
does
during
easily
eight

either
embarrass
environment
equipped
exaggerate

excellent
except
exercise
existence
expect

experience
experiment
explanation
familiar
fascinating

finally
foreign
forty
forward
friend

fundamental
generally
government
grammar
guarantee

guidance
happiness
heroes
humorous
identity

imaginary
imitation
immediately
incidentally
independent

intelligent
interesting
interfere
interpretation
interruption

invitation
irrelevant
irritable
island
jealous

judgment
knowledge
laboratory
length
lesson

library
license
loneliness
losing
lying

marriage
mathematics
medicine
miniature
minute

mysterious
naturally
necessary
neighbor
neither

noticeable
occasion
occurred
official
often

omission
operate
optimism
original
ought

paid
parallel
particularly
peculiar
perceive

perform
permanent
persevere
personally
persuade

picture
piece
planning
pleasant
political

possess
possible
practical
prefer
prejudice

presence
privilege
probably
professional
promise

proof
psychology
quantity
quarter
quiet

quit
quite
realize
receive
recognize

recommend
reference
religious
repetition
restaurant

rhythm
ridiculous
sacrifice
safety
scissors

secretary
separate
shining
similar
sincerely

soldier
speech
stopping
strength
studying

succeed
successful
surely
surprise
temperature
temporary
through

through
toward
tries
truly
twelfth
until
unusual

using
usually
village
weird
welcome
whether
writing