WORDS OFTEN MISSPELLED IN ENGLISH
Set of words that are often confused, such as capital and capitol.
a lot (not alot) | ability | absence |
accept | accessible | accidentally |
accommodate | accumulate | accuracy |
achievement | acknowledgment | acquaintance |
acquire | acquitted | actionable |
ad nauseam | adjournment | advantageous |
adverse | advise | adviser (not advisor) |
advisory | affidavit | affiliated |
afterward (not afterwards) | aggravate | aggressive |
align | all right (not alright) | alumnae (feminine) |
alumnus, alumni (masculine); alumna, | amateur | amid (not amidst) |
among (not amongst) | analysis | analyze |
anonymous | apparatus | apparent |
applicable | approximately | apropos |
ascertain | auxiliary | averse |
ax (not axe), axed | axing | bankruptcy |
beneficial | bona fide | bookkeeping |
brochure | bureau | business |
calendar | cancellation | cannot (one word) |
capacity | capital | capitol |
Caribbean | censure | changeable |
changeover | chargeable | Cincinnati |
clientele | climactic | column |
committee | comparative | competent |
competition | complacent | complement |
compliment | comptroller | condemn |
Connecticut | connote | conscience |
conscientious | conscientious | conscious |
conscious | consensus | contemptible |
continual | correlate | counterfeit |
courteous | credible | criterion |
criticism | deceive | defendant |
dependent | desperate | dilemma |
diligence | disbursement | disillusioned |
dissatisfied | dive, dived, diving | egregious |
embarrass | encyclopedia | endeavor |
enormity | enthused | entitled |
erroneous | exaggerate | exaggerate |
excellent | except | exhilaration |
existence | existence | explanation |
extraordinary | eye, eyed, eyeing | facilitate |
facsimile | familiar | fascinate |
fascinating | feasible | fictitious |
finally | financier | flack vs. flak |
fluorescent | forcibly | foreigh |
fortuitous | forward (not forwards) | gauge |
grievance | guarantee | harass |
humorous | inasmuch as | index, indexes, |
indices | indiscreet | indispensable |
ingenious | installation | interrupt |
irregardless | jeopardy | judgment |
justifiable | leisure | liaison |
license | lieutenant | likable (not likeable) |
loath | maintenance | manageable |
maneuver | meager | Mediterranean |
memento (not momento) | mileage | millennium |
millionaire | minuscule (not miniscul) | miscellaneous |
mortgage | naval | necessary |
niece | ninety | ninth |
nauseated | noticeable | nowadays |
nucieus | obsession | occasion |
occasionally | occurred | occurrence |
omission | omitted | opinion |
okay | opportunity | optimistic |
outrageous | pageant | permanent |
permissible | persecute | persistent |
phenomenon | possession | posthumous |
potato, potatoes | precede | prejudice |
prescription | prevalent | prima-facie |
privilege | proviso, provisos | questionnaire |
recommend | referral | referred |
relevant | remembrance | reminisce |
repetition | restaurant | restaurateur |
rhyme | rhythm | ridiculous |
sacrifice | sacrilegious | salable (preferred, although saleable not incorrect) |
sandwich | satisfactorily | schedule |
secretary | seize | seize |
semiannual | separate | serviceable |
simultaneous | sizable | subpoena |
subtle | succeed | successor |
supersede | supervisor | susceptible |
suspicious | technique | tendency |
Tennessee | total, totaled, totaling | toward (not towards) |
transferring | twelfth | unanimous |
unnecessary | upward (not upwards) | usable |
vendor | veto, vetoes, vetoed | vetoing |
villain | wholly | zero, zeroes |