Stjerneskinn.com

A list of 470 commonly misspelled English words

The list is in American English.

  • abbreviate
  • absence
  • absorption
  • absurd
  • accept
  • accidentally
  • accommodate
  • accompanying
  • accomplish
  • accumulate
  • accustom
  • achievement
  • acknowledge
  • acknowledgment
  • acquaintance
  • acquainted
  • acquire
  • acquitted
  • across
  • additionally
  • address
  • affect
  • aggravate
  • alley
  • allies
  • all right
  • almost
  • a lot
  • already
  • although
  • altogether
  • alumna (pl. alumnae)
  • alumnus (pl. alumni)
  • always
  • amateur
  • among
  • amount
  • analysis
  • analyze
  • angel
  • angle
  • annual
  • answer
  • apartment
  • apology
  • apparatus
  • apparent
  • appearance
  • appropriate
  • arctic
  • argument
  • arising
  • arithmetic
  • arrangement
  • artillery
  • ascend
  • assimilate
  • association
  • athlete
  • athletics
  • attendance
  • audience
  • auxiliary
  • awkward
  • bachelor
  • balance
  • balloon
  • banana
  • barbarous
  • battalion
  • becoming
  • beggar
  • begging
  • beginning
  • believing
  • benefited
  • biscuit
  • boundaries
  • brilliant
  • Britain
  • Britannica
  • bureau
  • burglar
  • business
  • busy
  • cafeteria
  • calendar
  • canceled
  • candidate
  • can't
  • capital
  • capitol
  • carburetor
  • career
  • Caribbean
  • cemetery
  • certain
  • changeable
  • changing
  • chaperon
  • characteristic
  • chauffeur
  • choose
  • chose
  • clothes
  • coarse
  • collectible
  • column
  • coming
  • commission
  • commitment
  • committed
  • committee
  • comparative
  • compelled
  • competitive
  • complement
  • compliment
  • compulsory
  • concede
  • conceivable
  • conference
  • conferred
  • confidentially
  • confidently
  • connoisseur
  • conqueror
  • conscience
  • conscientious
  • conscious
  • consciousness
  • continuous
  • controlled
  • convenience
  • convenient
  • courteous
  • criticism
  • criticize
  • curiosity
  • cylinder
  • dealt
  • debater
  • deceive
  • defendant
  • definite
  • definitely
  • describe
  • description
  • desert
  • desirable
  • despair
  • desperate
  • dessert
  • deterrent
  • dictionary
  • difference
  • dilapidated
  • dining room
  • disagree
  • disappear
  • disappoint
  • disastrous
  • discipline
  • dissatisfied
  • dissipate
  • divide
  • doctor
  • dormitory
  • during
  • ecstasy
  • eighth
  • eligible
  • eliminate
  • embarrass
  • eminent
  • emphasize
  • employee
  • encouraging
  • engineer
  • enthusiastic
  • environment
  • equipped
  • equivalent
  • erroneous
  • especially
  • exaggerated
  • exceed
  • excellent
  • except
  • exceptionally
  • exhaust
  • exhilarate
  • existence
  • experience
  • explanation
  • extraordinary
  • extremely
  • familiar
  • fascinate
  • fascinating
  • February
  • fiery
  • finally
  • financier
  • fluorescent
  • foreign
  • forestry
  • formally
  • formerly
  • forty
  • fourth
  • frantically
  • fraternities
  • friend
  • gauge
  • genealogy
  • generally
  • ghost
  • government
  • governor
  • grammar
  • grievous
  • guard
  • guidance
  • handkerchief
  • harass
  • having
  • height
  • hindrance
  • hoping
  • humorous
  • hypocrisy
  • illiterate
  • imaginary
  • imagination
  • immediately
  • impromptu
  • incidentally
  • incredible
  • indefinitely
  • independence
  • independent
  • indictment
  • indispensable
  • inevitable
  • infinite
  • ingenious
  • ingenuous
  • innocence
  • innocuous
  • innovative
  • inoculate
  • instance
  • instants
  • intellectual
  • intelligence
  • intentionally
  • intercede
  • interesting
  • irrelevant
  • irresistible
  • itself
  • jewelry
  • judgment
  • knowledge
  • laboratory
  • laid
  • legitimate
  • leisure
  • liable
  • liaison
  • library
  • license
  • lieutenant
  • lightning
  • likely
  • liquefy
  • literature
  • loneliness
  • loose
  • lose
  • lying
  • maintain
  • maintenance
  • maneuver
  • marriage
  • mathematics
  • mattress
  • meant
  • medieval
  • merely
  • millennium
  • millionaire
  • miniature
  • minute
  • miscellaneous
  • mischievous
  • Mississippi
  • misspelled
  • mnemonic
  • murmuring
  • muscle
  • mysterious
  • naturally
  • necessary
  • neither
  • nevertheless
  • ninety
  • ninth
  • noticeable
  • nowadays
  • oblige
  • obstacle
  • occasion
  • occasionally
  • occur
  • occurred
  • occurrence
  • omission
  • omitted
  • oneself
  • opportunity
  • optimistic
  • origin
  • original
  • outrageous
  • paid
  • pamphlet
  • parallel
  • paralysis
  • parliament
  • participle
  • particularly
  • partner
  • pastime
  • patience
  • peaceable
  • perceive
  • perform
  • performance
  • perhaps
  • permanent
  • permissible
  • perseverance
  • personal
  • personnel
  • perspiration
  • physically
  • picnicking
  • planned
  • pleasant
  • politics
  • possess
  • possession
  • potatoes
  • practically
  • prairie
  • precede
  • precedence
  • preceding
  • preference
  • preferred
  • prejudice
  • preparation
  • prescient
  • presence
  • presents
  • prevalent
  • principal
  • principle
  • privilege
  • probably
  • proceed
  • professor
  • pronunciation
  • propaganda
  • propeller
  • prove
  • quantity
  • questionnaire
  • quiet
  • quite
  • rarefy
  • really
  • receipt
  • receive
  • recognize
  • recommend
  • reference
  • referred
  • regard
  • religious
  • repetition
  • representative
  • respectfully
  • respectively
  • restaurant
  • rhythm
  • rhythmical
  • ridiculous
  • sacrilegious
  • sandwich
  • saxophone
  • schedule
  • secretary
  • seize
  • sense
  • separate
  • sergeant
  • severely
  • sheriff
  • siege
  • similar
  • simultaneous
  • sincerely
  • soliloquy
  • sophomore
  • specifically
  • specimen
  • speech
  • stationary
  • stationery
  • statue
  • stature
  • statute
  • stopping
  • stretch
  • strictly
  • stubbornness
  • studying
  • successful
  • superintendent
  • supersede
  • surprise
  • syllable
  • temperament
  • temperature
  • their
  • there
  • they're
  • thorough
  • throughout
  • together
  • tragedy
  • transferred
  • tries
  • truly
  • Tuesday
  • twelfth
  • unanimous
  • undoubtedly
  • unnecessary
  • until
  • using
  • usually
  • vaccinate
  • vacillate
  • vacuum
  • vicious
  • vilify
  • village
  • villain
  • weather
  • Wednesday
  • weird
  • whether
  • wholly
  • women
  • writing
  • you're

Sources