Common Misspelled Words
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Common Misspelled Words
A
| absence | acceptable | accessible |
| accommodation | accomplish | achievement |
| acquire | address | advertisement |
| advice – (noun) | advise – (verb) | amateur |
| apartment | appearance | argument |
| athletic | attendance |
B
| basically | beginning | beneficial |
| believe – verb | belief – noun | business |
C
| calendar | campaign | category | cemetery |
| challenge | characteristic | cigarette | clothes |
| column | committee | commitment | completely |
| conscious | controversy | convenient | condemn |
| conscience | conscientious | correspondence | criticism |
D
| deceive | definitely | definition |
| department | describe | despair |
| desperate | development | difference |
| difficult | disappointed | discipline |
| disease |
E
| easily | effect | eighth |
| either | embarrass | encouragement |
| enemy | entirely | environment |
| especially | exaggerate | excellent |
| existence | experience | experiment |
F
| familiar | February | finally |
| financial | foreign | foreigner |
| formerly | forty | fourth |
G
| general | generally | genius |
| government | grammar | grateful |
| guarantee | guidance |
H
| happily | height | heroes |
| humorous | hypocrite |
I
| ideally | imaginary | immediate |
| incredible | independent | influential |
| insurance | intelligent | interference |
| interrupt | introduce | island |
| its – for possession | it's – for "it is" or "it has" | |
J
| jealous | jealousy |
K
| kneel | knowledge |
L
| later | legitimate | length | library |
| lightning | likely | loneliness | lose (verb) |
| loose (adjective) | lovely | luxurious |
M
| maintain | maintenance | manageable |
| management | manufacture | marriage |
| married | millionaire | misspell |
| mischievous | money | mortgage |
| muscle | mysterious |
N
| naturally | necessary | neighbor / neighbour |
| ninety | noticeable | nowadays |
O
| obedient | obstacle | occasional | occurred |
| official | opinion | opportunity | opposition |
| ordinary | originally |
P
| particular | peculiar | perceive | performance |
| permanent | personal | personnel | physical |
| physician | piece | pleasant | possession |
| possible | possibility | potatoes | practically |
| prefer | privilege | professor | professional |
| psychology | pronounce / pronunciation | psychological |
Q
| quantity | quality | quizzes | queue | questionnaire |
R
| realistic | realize | really |
| receipt | receive | recognize |
| recommend | religion | religious |
| remember | representative | restaurant |
| rhythm | ridiculous | roommate |
T
| technical | technique | temperature |
| temporary | their (possessed by them) | there (not here) |
| they're (contraction of "they are") | themselves – not themself | |
U
| unique | undoubtedly | until | unforgettable | |
V
| valuable | village | violence |
| violent | vision | volume |
W
| Wednesday | weird | grateful |
| which | woman – (singular) | women ( plural) |
| worthwhile | width | writing |
| weather – indicating climate | whether – (indicating if) | |
Y
| yacht | young |
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