Words commonly misspelled,
or spelled
correctly but not used properly:
Note: these are American spellings!
A: absence, accidentally,
accommodation, according, ache, again, against, aisle, allegory, almost,
always, although, ancient, airplane, aging, agonize, apologize
B: beautiful, beginning,
believe, body, build, business
C: calendar, consensus,
cemetery, coolly, confidence, criticize,
D: defendant, disappoint,
drunkenness, despair, distance, disguise, difference, describe, decided,
double, divide, dilemma, disappear,
E: easiness, exceed,
F: famous, finish, forest,
familiar, from, form,
G: guest, guarantee, guilty,
government, guardian, gauge,
H: halve, happened, here, hear,
height, high,
I: illegible, indispensable, information, interest,
imagine, immediately, independent, instead, irresistible,
J: judgment, juice,
K: knowledge,
L: liquefy, a lot, language, listen, league,
M: maintenance, month, mountain, machine, measure,
meant, merchandise, memorandum,
N: necessary, neither,
nighttime
O: occurrence, occasion,
P: pastime, paragraph, period,
phrase, possible, preferred, pressure, prominent, purchase, purpose, pursue,
Q: quite, quiet, queue, questionnaire
R: recommend, receive,
region, remember, receipt, reference
S: separate, soldier, sugar, sure, sergeant, says,
several, similar, sincerely
T: tyranny, thousands,
temperature, thorough, tomorrow, theater, to, two, too, there, their, they're,
truly, tournament
U: unfortunately, until,
usually, unanimous, unforgettable
V: vacuum, variety, various,
vary, vehicle, vicious, village, villain,
W: wear, where, we're,
weird
X:
Y: yacht, yield
Z: zucchini
