5/24/2011 Common misspalings : Oxford Dictiona Oxford Dictionaries Online The world's most trusted dictionaries etter writing Grammar spelling Speling rules and tes common misspellings Bish and Ametiean speting Punctuation Practicalwsting Improve your Englsh Abbreviations Home > Betterwiting » Spelling » Common misspellings Common misspellings Here's aquicl-reference guide to the top misspellings according to the Oxford English Corpus - anelectronic collection ofover 2billion words of real English that helps us to see how people are using the language and also shows us the mistakes that are most often made. ‘The table gives the correct spelling of the word, handy tips on getting it right, and also the most common misspellings that we've found in our research, so youcan checktto see ifany of the same mistakes have been tripping you up. ‘oxforddictionaries.com/...common-mis. Correct spelling [Spelling advice Common misspelling ‘accommodate, Eno 68, bo ms ‘accomodate, accommdation accommodation achieve ibebree acheive ‘agaressive, tH agressive, agression aggression apparently renthot-ant apparantly ‘appearance ends with-ance appearence argument no @ after thew arguement ‘assassination two double ss ‘assasination Basically ends vath-ally basicly beginning doublen before the ing begining, Believe Thebree beleive, belive ‘baarre one, double-F bizzare ‘business begins with busi buisness calendar Tarnot-er calender Caribbean one F, tw bs Camibean cemetery ends with -ery cometary chanteur ends with eur chauiier colleague -ea inthe middle collegue coming nem comming committee doublem, doublet, doublee | commites completely ends with-ely completly conscious "se-nthe middle conciows canosity -os- in the middle canousity definitely ~ite- not ~ate- definately dilemma “mm: not -man- dilemma disappear one s, two Ps dissapear disappoint ones, Bw PE aasaponnt ecstasy ends with sy [ecstacy embarrass Tao Fs two 8s embarass ‘environment nbebre them enviroment 135/24/2011 Common misspallings : Oxford Dictiona eastence ends with-ence existance Fahrenheit begins withFahr Farenheit Tamale ends with lar familar nally ‘tw Is inaly ‘Huorescent begins with fluor Horescent preg ebefored Bren Preseeable ‘begins with fore- frsceable Bry begins with for buty rward begins withior Bward end ibebree freind further ‘begins with far father wat begins withe- ist gamorous “mor inthe middle gamourous government nbefre them goverment guard begins with gua gaurd Tappened ends with-ened happend Tharass, harassment | one r, two e's harrass, harrassment Tonorary “nor inthe middle Bonourary umrows “mor inthe middle humourous idiosyncrasy ends with -asy idiosyneracy mamediately ends with-ely immediatly imeidentally ends with-ally mmedently independent ends with-ent independant interrupt EHO FS interupt ‘wresistible ends with ible aresistable Tnowiedge Temember the d Inowieg Traise, Eason Temember the second I'Hais- | Tage, iason Tolipop Tin the maddie Tollypop millennium, double, double Taillenium, millenia millennia ‘Neanderthal ends wath -thal Neandertal ReCeeary one € two ss RECCESSaTY noticeable: remember the middle e noticable ‘occasion ao cs, ones ocassion, occassion occurred, occurring, ‘Ew €5, BO FS occured, occuring ‘oxfordeictionaries.com/...common-mis. ‘OeCURTENCe ‘Eno cs, bwo HS, ence not | occurance, occurence pavilion one pavilion persistent ends with-ent persistant Pharaoh ends with -aoh Pharoah piece ibebree peice politician ends with clan politica Portuguese ends with -guese Portugese possession ‘two S's inthe muddle and two | posession at the end preferred, Ew0 FS prefered, prefering preferring propaganda begins with propa propoganda 2135/24/2011 Common misspallings : Oxford Dictiona publicly ends wath -ly publically really two Is realy receive ebebrei Fecieve Telerred, refering _| twors refered, refering religous ends vath-gious religous Femember “mem inthe middle Tember, remeber Fesistance ends with ance Fesistence sense ends with se sence separate ~par inthe middle seperate siege before e seige saccessfal Ea o8, two 88 succesful supersede ends with-sede supercede surprise begins withsur suprise Tattoo Ea ts, bo OF tatoo Tendency ends with-ency tendancy Thereiore ends with fore therefor threshold one inthe muddle threshhold TROROW One mn, CWO TT Tommrow, jonmnoneW tongue begins with ton-,ends with- | tounge gue Tly noe truely unioreseen, Temeiber thee after ther | unforseen ‘unfortunately ends with-ely unfortunatly ay one Lat the end untill weird ebebrei wierd ‘wherever one e inthe middle whereever which begins with wh- wich oxford university Press (Copyright© 2017 Oxford Unversy Press. Alrights reserved ‘oxfordeictionaries.com/.../common-mis. 3/3