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词条 Commonly misspelled English words
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  1. Unlimited misspellings

  2. Documented list of common misspellings

      A–B    P–Q    Typing errors    Homophones    Personal names    Foreign writers    Apostrophes  

  3. See also

  4. Notes

  5. References

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Commonly misspelled English words[1] (UK: misspelt words) are words that are often unintentionally misspelled in general writing.

A selected list of common words is presented below, under Documented list of common misspellings.

Although the word "common" is subjective depending on the situation, the focus is on general writing, rather than in a specific field. Official spellings also vary by country or region, with some rejecting the American or British variants as incorrect for the region.[1][2][3]

Within a particular field of study, such as computer graphics, other words might be more common for misspelling, such as "pixel" misspelled as "pixle" (or variants "cesium" and "caesium"). Sometimes words are purposely misspelled, as a form in slang, abbreviations, or in song lyrics, etc.

In general writing, some words are frequently misspelled, such as the incorrect spelling "concensus"[5] for "consensus"[4]

found in numerous webpages on the Internet.[5] Other common misspellings include "equiptment" (for "equipment"),[5][5]

"independant" (for "independent"),[5][6]

"readible" (for readable),[3][7]

or "usible" (for usable or useable).[3][8]

[9][10][11][12]

Unlimited misspellings

Because many words can be extended with prefixes (such as "un-" or "anti-" or "re-") or suffixes (such as "-ly" or "-ing" or "-ness"), a comprehensive list of words prone to misspelling would contain thousands of variations from combining prefixes or suffixes (or both) added to the root words. To limit the scope to common words, the top 350 words are considered (according to various sources).

Documented list of common misspellings

The following list, of about 350 words, is based on documented lists[8][10] of the top 100, 200, or 400[3] most commonly misspelled words in all variants of the English language, rather than listing every conceivable misspelled word. Each word is followed by examples of misspellings:

A–B

{{Div col|colwidth=20em}}* absence – abcense, absance* acceptable – acceptible* accidentally/accidently – accidentaly* accommodate – accomodate, acommodate* achieve – acheive* acknowledge – acknowlege, aknowledge* acquaintance – acquaintence, aquaintance* acquire – aquire, adquire* acquit – aquit* acreage – acrage, acerage* address – adress* adultery – adultary* advisable – adviseable, advizable* affect – effect* aggression – agression* aggressive – agressive* allegiance – allegaince, allegience, alegiance* almost – allmost* a lot – alot (must be two words), allot* amateur – amatuer, amature* annually – anually, annualy* apparent – apparant, aparent* arctic – artic* argument – arguement* atheist – athiest* awful – awfull, aweful* because – becuase* becoming – becomeing* beginning – begining* believe – beleive* bellwether – bellweather* buoy/buoyant – bouy/bouyant* business – buisness{{div col end}}=== C–D ==={{Div col|colwidth=20em}}* calendar – calender* camouflage – camoflage, camoflague* capitol – capital (both words exist, but are distinct)* Caribbean – Carribean* category – catagory* caught – cauhgt, caugt* cemetery – cemetary, cematery* changeable – changable* chief – cheif* colleague – collaegue, collegue* column – colum* coming – comming* committed – commited, comitted* concede – conceed* congratulate – congradulate* conscientious – consciencious* conscious – concious, consious* consensus – concensus* controversy – contraversy* coolly – cooly* daiquiri – dacquiri, daquiri* deceive – decieve* definite – definate, definit* definitely – definitly, definately, defiantly* desperate – desparate* difference – diffrence* dilemma – dilema* disappoint – disapoint* disastrous – disasterous* drunkenness – drunkeness* dumbbell – dumbell{{div col end}}=== E–H ==={{Div col|colwidth=20em}}* embarrass – embarass* equipment – equiptment (wrong in numerous webpages)* exceed – excede* exhilarate – exilerate* existence – existance* experience – experiance* extreme – extreem* fascinating – facinating* fiery – firey* fluorescent – flourescent* foreign – foriegn* friend – freind* fulfil – fullfil (American: fulfill)* gauge – guage* grateful – gratefull, greatful* guarantee – garantee, garentee, garanty* guidance – guidence* harass – harrass* height – heighth, heigth* hierarchy – heirarchy* hors d'oeuvres – hors derves, ordeurves* humorous – humerous* hygiene – hygene, hygine, hiygeine, higeine, hygeine* hypocrisy/hypocrite – hipocrit{{div col end}}=== I–K ==={{Div col|colwidth=20em}}* ignorance – ignorence* imitate – immitate* immediately – imediately* indict - indite* independent – independant* indispensable – indispensible* inoculate – innoculate* intelligence – inteligence, intelligance* jewelry (UK: jewellery) – jewelery* judgment – judgement (issue in the U.S.)* kernel – kernal, distinct from homophone "colonel"{{div col end}}=== L–O ==={{Div col|colwidth=20em}}* leisure – liesure* liaison – liason* library – libary, liberry* license – lisence (US always license, UK noun licence)* lightning – lightening* lose – loose{{cite web|url=http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/difficulties/looselose.html|title=Loose vs Lose|work=e Learn English Language|access-date=2015-06-23}}
14. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mischievous|title=Mischievous – Definition of mischievous by Merriam-Webster|work=merriam-webster.com|access-date=2015-06-23}}
15. ^ tag footnote, -- -- stating the word is proven to be among the -- -- top 400 most commonly misspelled words. -- -- Other misspellings outside the top 400 list can be -- -- added to Lists of common misspellings -->{{Div col|colwidth=20em}}* parliament – parliment* pastime – passtime, pasttime* perceive – percieve* perseverance – perseverence* personnel – personell, personel* plagiarize – plagerize* playwright – playright, playwrite* possession – posession, possesion* potatoes – potatos* precede – preceed* presence – presance* principle – principal* privilege – privelege, priviledge* professor – professer* promise – promiss* pronunciation – pronounciation* proof – prufe* prophecy (as noun) – prophesy (valid as verb)* publicly – publically* quarantine – quarentine* queue – que (from Bar-B-Que)* questionnaire – questionaire, questionnair{{div col end}}=== R–S ==={{Div col|colwidth=20em}}* readable – readible* really – realy* receive – recieve* receipt – reciept* recommend – recomend, reccommend* referred – refered* reference – referance, refrence* relevant – relevent, revelant* religious – religous, religius* repetition – repitition* restaurant – restarant, restaraunt* rhyme – rime* rhythm – rythm, rythem* secretary – secratary, secretery* seize – sieze* separate – seperate* sergeant – sargent* similar – similer* skilful – skilfull (American: skillful)* speech – speach, speeche (archaic)* successful – succesful, successfull, sucessful* supersede – supercede* surprise – suprise, surprize{{div col end}}=== T–Z ==={{Div col|colwidth=20em}}* than – thenArmstrong.edu (results for misspelling as "then"), Commonly Misspelled Words
16. ^ tag footnote, ,-- -- stating the word is proven to be among the -- -- top 400 most commonly misspelled words. -- -- Other misspellings outside the top 400 list can be -- -- added to Lists of common misspellings -->== Common causes of misspellings ===== Mispronunciation ===Mispronunciation is known to be one of the most common causes of misspelling. "How to Prepare for the Canadian GED High School Equivalency Exam", Murray Rockowitz, Dale Shuttleworth, et al., 2002, {{ISBN|0-7641-1789-0}}, p. 177, Google Books webpage: [https://books.google.com/books?id=-rYF_vl1L6kC&pg=PA177&lpg=PA177&dq=%22common+causes+of+misspelling%22&source=bl&ots=iIHK5wv299&sig=5n4JliszvUM3EKPiRYJPy7LD9LU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result GoogleB-9LU].

References

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  • "100 Most Often Misspelled Words in English", LoveToKnow, Corp., December 2008
  • "Canadian, British and American Spelling", LukeMastin.com, December 2008, webpage: LM-spelling.
  • "Canadian, British and American Spelling: Some Commonly Misspelled Words", LukeMastin.com, December 2008, webpage: LM-misspelled.
  • "Merriam-Webster Online" (results for misspelling as "concensus"), Merriam-Webster, 2008, webpage: MW-concensus.
  • "200 Most Commonly Misspelled Words (Part 1)", Richard Nordquist, About.com, December 2008, webpage: Aboutcom-misspelled-A.
  • "200 Most Commonly Misspelled Words (Part 2)", Richard Nordquist, About.com, December 2008, webpage: Aboutcom-misspelled-B.
  • "200 Most Commonly Misspelled Words (Part 3)", Richard Nordquist, About.com, December 2008, webpage: Aboutcom-misspelled-C.
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