Frequently Misspelled Words

@MySpot (2600)
United States
October 20, 2006 4:42pm CST
A a lot, absence, acceptable, accidentally, accommodate, acquire acquit, all right, amateur, analyze, apparent, argument B believe, business C calendar, camouflage, category, cemetery, changeable, chief, collectible, colonel, column, committed, conscience, conscious D definite(ly), description, dilemma, disappear, discipline E eighth, embarrass(ment), encouragement, equipment, especially, existence, experience F February, foreign, forfeit, forty, fourth, fulfill G gauge, government, grateful, guarantee H happily, height, heroes, hierarchy, humorous, hygiene I ignorance, immediate, independent, intelligence, island, its/it's J jewelry, judgment K knowledge L leisure, liaison, library, license, lightning M maintain, manageable, maneuver, mathematics, medieval, memento, miniature, millennium, miscellaneous, mischievous, muscle, and misspell (how ironic!?) N necessary, neighbor, noticeable O obedience, occasion/ally, occur/occurrence, opinion P parallel, permanent, perseverance, personal, personnel, possession, potato/potatoes, precede, preferred, principal/principle, privilege, pronunciation Q questionnaire R receive, receipt, recognize, recommend, referred, reference, relevant, religious, restaurant, rhyme, rhythm S schedule, scissors, separate, special, subtle, supersede T technique, temperature, their/they're/there, thorough, to/too/two, truly, twelfth U until V vacuum W weather, Wednesday, weird Y you're/your
3 responses
• Canada
20 Oct 06
wash car - wash car
I've also noticed that people often use the words "chose" and "choose" and "lose" and "loose" interchangeably. I've seen it so many times that I've even started second-guessing myself.
@MySpot (2600)
• United States
21 Oct 06
Yes, someone started a discussion on commonly confused/misused words already, so I found a list of 'frequently misspelled words' to post. Thanks for responding!
• United States
21 Oct 06
Fequently misspelled words huh; I mispell a lot most of them. lol God Bless
@mythmoh (3984)
• United States
20 Oct 06
what about quiet and quite Sometimes color--colour(i think this one is right) Farmer and former