Commonly Misspelled Words

“A” Words

a lot	a while, awhile	ability	absence	absent
abundance	accelerate	accept	acceptable	accessible
accident	accidentally	acclaim	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	American	among
amount	analysis	analyze	angel	angle
annual	anoint	another	answer	antiseptic
anxious	apartment	apologize	apology	apparatus
apparent	appear	appearance	appetite	application
apply	appreciate	appreciation	approach	appropriate
approval	approve	approximate	arctic	argue
arguing	argument	arouse	arrange	arrangement
article	artificial	ascend	assistance	assistant
associate	association	ate	atheist	athletic
attempt	attendance	attention	audience	August
author	automobile	autumn	auxiliary	available
avenue	awful	awhile	awkward	axle

 

“B - C” Words

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
Caesar	cafeteria	calculator	calendar	camouflage
campaign	candidate	cantaloupe	capital	capitol
captain	carburetor	career	careful	careless
Caribbean	carriage	carrying	cartilage	castle
category	ceiling	cemetery	cents	cereal
certain	challenge	changeable	changing	characteristic
charity	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	conceited	conceivable	conceive
concentration	conception	condemn	condescend	condition
conference	confident	congratulate	congratulations	connoisseur
conquer	conscience	conscientious	conscious	consensus
consequence	consequently	considerable	consistency	consistent
continual	continuous	controlled	controversial	controversy
convenience	convenient	conversation	coolly	corporal
correlate	correspondence	corroborate	cough	could
council	counsel	counselor	courage	courageous
course	courteous	courtesy	criticism	criticize
crystal	curiosity	cylinder

 

“D - E” Words

daily	daiquiri	Dalmatian	daughter	daybreak
death	debt	deceive	December	decent
deception	decide	decision	decisive	deed
defendant	deferred	definite	definitely	definition
definitive	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	dissection
dissipate	distance	distinction	division	doctor
dollar	dominant	doubt	dough	doughty
dozen	drunkenness	dumbbell	dyed	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
envelop	envelope	environment	equipment	equipped
equivalent	err	especially	essential	evening
evident	ewe	exaggerate	exaggeration	examine
exceed	excellence	excellent	except	exceptional
exercise	exhaust	exhausted	exhaustion	exhilarate
exhilaration	existence	existent	exorbitant	expense
experience	experiment	explanation	extreme	extremely
exuberance

 

“F - G” Words

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
fuelling	fulfill	fundamental	fundamentally	further
gallon	garden	gardener	gauge	general
generally	genius	gnat	gnaw	government
governor	grammar	grateful	great	grievance
grievous	grocery	gross	guarantee	guardian
guerrilla	guess	guidance	guttural

 

“H - I” Words 

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'oeuvre
hospital	humorous	hurried	hurrying	hygiene
hypocrisy	hypocrite	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	introduce
invitation	irascible	irrelevant	irresistible	irritable
island	isle	it’s	its	itself

 

“J - M” Words

January	jealous	jealousy	journal	judgment
judicial	kindergarten	kitchen	knee	knew
knickers	knife	knit	knock	know
knowledge	knuckle	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	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
moral	morale	mortgage	mosquito	mosquitoes
mountain	mournful	murmur	muscle	mysterious
mystery

 

“N - P” Words

narrative	natural	naturally	nauseated	nauseous
necessary	necessity	needle	negligence	neighbor
neither	neutron	newspaper	newsstand	nickel
niece	night	ninety	ninth	no one
noticeable	nowadays	nuisance	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	paid	pamphlet
panicky	parallel	parallelism	parliament	particular
partner	pastime	patience	pavilion	peace
peaceable	pear	peculiar	pencil	penetrate
peninsula	people	perceive	perception	perfect
perform	performance	perhaps	permanence	permanent
permissible	permitted	perpendicular	perseverance	persevere
persistence	persistent	personal	personality	personnel
perspiration	persuade	persuasion	pertain	pharaoh
physical	physician	picture	piece	pigeon
pilgrimage	pistachio	pitiful	plagiarize	plain
plane	planning	playwright	pleasant	please
pleasure	plenitude	plight	pneumonia	pocket
poinsettia	poison	policeman	political	population
portray	portrayal	positive	possess	possession
possessive	possibility	possible	potato	potatoes
practical	practically	prairie	precede	precedence
preceding	precise	predictable	prefer	preference
preferential	preferred	prejudice	preparation	prepare
prescription	presence	president	presumptuous	prevalent
primitive	principal	principle	printout	privilege
probably	procedure	proceed	produce	profession
professional	professor	profitable	prominent	promise
pronounce	pronunciation	propaganda	propagate	propeller
prophecy	prophet	prospect	psychiatrist	psychology
publicly	puerile	pursue	pursuit

 

“Q - S” Words

quality	quantity	quarantine	quarreling	quart
quarter	questionnaire	quiet	quite	quizzes
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
right	role	roll	roommate	rough
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
soften	solemn	solider	sophomore	sorcerer
soul	source	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	succeed	success	successful
succession	sudden	sufficient	superintendent	supersede
suppress	surely	surprise	surround	susceptible
suspense	suspicious	sweat	syllable	symmetrical
sympathy	synonym	synonymous

 

“T - Z” Words

tangible	tariff	technical	technique	temperament
temperamental	temperature	tenant	tendency	tenement
tenet	their	themselves	theories	there
therefor	therefore	they're	thorough	though
thought	threshold	through	tight	title
together	tomorrow	tongue	too	tough
tournament	toward	towards	tragedy	transferred
transferring	treasury	tremendous	tries	truly
twelfth	twelve	tyranny	ukulele	unanimous
undoubtedly	unforgettable	unique	unnecessary	until
usable	usage	useful	usual	usually
utilization	vacuum	valley	valuable	variety
vegetable	vein	vengeance	versatile	vicinity
vicious	view	vigilant	village	villain
violence	virtue	visible	vision	visitor
voice	volume	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	writing	xylophone	yacht	yield
young	your	you're	Zeitgeist