SpellingB

A compendium of frequently misspelled words

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It came with my PC; 
It plainly marks four my revue 
Miss steaks I can knot sea.
I've run this poem threw it, 
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Its letter perfect in it's weigh -- 
My checker tolled me sew. 
-- Author unknown

Frequently Misspelled Words:

  • a lot
  • absence
  • absorption
  • abundance
  • accessible
  • accidentally
  • acclaim
  • accommodate
  • accomplish
  • accumulate
  • achieve
  • achievement
  • acquaintance
  • across
  • address
  • advantageous
  • advice/advise
  • affect/effect
  • affiliated
  • aggravate
  • aggressive
  • alignment
  • all right
  • allotted
  • already
  • aluminum
  • ambience
  • analyze
  • apparent
  • appearance
  • appropriate
  • argument
  • asphalt
  • assistant
  • asterisk
  • atheist
  • attendance
  • auditor
  • auxiliary
  • balloon
  • bankruptcy
  • barbiturate
  • bargain
  • basically
  • beggar
  • beginning
  • believable
  • believe
  • benefited
  • biscuit
  • bouillon
  • boundary
  • breadth
  • breath
  • breathe
  • brilliant
  • Britain
  • bulletin
  • buoyant
  • bureaucracy
  • business
  • calendar
  • camouflage
  • campaign
  • cantaloupe
  • capital
  • capitol
  • category
  • ceiling
  • cemetery
  • chagrined
  • challenge
  • changeable
  • changing
  • characteristic
  • chief
  • choose
  • chose
  • cigarette
  • clientele
  • climbed
  • collateral
  • colonel
  • colossal
  • column
  • coming
  • commitment
  • committee
  • comparative
  • competent
  • competitor
  • completely
  • concede
  • conceive
  • condemn
  • condescend
  • congratulations
  • connoisseur
  • conscience
  • consciousness
  • consensus
  • consistent
  • continuous
  • controlled
  • convenient
  • convertible
  • coolly
  • corollary
  • correlate
  • correspondence
  • corroborate
  • council
  • counsel
  • counselor
  • courteous
  • courtesy
  • criticism
  • criticize
  • definitely
  • description
  • desirable
  • desperate
  • develop
  • developed
  • development
  • dilemma
  • dining
  • disappear
  • disappearance
  • disappoint
  • disastrous
  • disbursement
  • discipline
  • discrepancy
  • disease
  • dissatisfied
  • dissipate
  • dominant
  • drunkenness
  • eligible
  • embarrassing
  • endorsement
  • environment
  • equipped
  • equivalent
  • especially
  • exaggerate
  • exceed
  • excellence

  • exhaust
  • exhilarate
  • existence
  • expense
  • experiment
  • explanation
  • extraordinary
  • extremely
  • exuberance
  • fallacy
  • familiar
  • fiery
  • finally
  • financially
  • flexible
  • fluctuation
  • forcibly
  • foreign
  • foresee
  • forfeit
  • formerly
  • forty
  • fourth
  • fulfill
  • fundamentally
  • gauge
  • genealogy
  • generally
  • genius
  • gesture
  • government
  • governor
  • grammar
  • grievous
  • guarantee
  • guard
  • guerilla
  • guidance
  • handkerchief
  • haphazard
  • happily
  • harass
  • harassment
  • height
  • heinous
  • hemorrhage
  • heroes
  • hesitancy
  • hindrance
  • hoarse
  • holiday
  • hoping
  • humorous
  • hypocrisy
  • hypocrite
  • ideally
  • idiosyncrasy
  • ignorance
  • illegible
  • imaginary
  • immediately
  • immigrant
  • implement
  • incidentally
  • incredible
  • indelible
  • independent
  • indicted
  • indispensable
  • insistent
  • intermediary
  • interpret
  • interrupt
  • introduce
  • irrelevant
  • irresistible
  • island
  • jewelry
  • judgment
  • judicial
  • labeling
  • latent
  • legitimate
  • leisure
  • license
  • lieutenant
  • lightning
  • likelihood
  • likely
  • literally
  • litigation
  • loneliness
  • loose
  • lose
  • luxury
  • magazine
  • maintain
  • maintenance
  • manageable
  • maneuver
  • mathematics
  • medicine
  • medieval
  • mediocre
  • millionaire
  • miniature
  • minimum
  • minor
  • minutes
  • mischievous
  • missile
  • misspelled
  • mortgage
  • mosquito
  • mosquitoes
  • murmur
  • narrative
  • naturally
  • necessary
  • necessity
  • negligence
  • negotiable
  • neighbor
  • neither
  • neutron
  • newsstand
  • niece
  • ninety
  • ninth
  • noticeable
  • obedience
  • obstacle
  • occasionally
  • occurred
  • occurrence
  • official
  • omission
  • omitted
  • opinion
  • opponent
  • opportunity
  • panicky
  • parallel
  • parliament
  • particularly
  • pastime
  • peaceable
  • peculiar
  • penetrate

  • perceive
  • performance
  • permanent
  • perseverance
  • persistent
  • personnel
  • persuade
  • possesses
  • precede
  • preceding
  • predictable
  • predominant
  • preference
  • preferred
  • prejudice
  • preparation
  • prescription
  • prevalent
  • primitive
  • principle
  • privilege
  • probably
  • procedure
  • proceed
  • process
  • professor
  • prominent
  • pronounce
  • pronunciation
  • propaganda
  • prophecy/prophesy
  • psychology
  • publicly
  • pursue
  • questionnaire
  • quizzes
  • receive
  • recipe
  • recommend
  • reference
  • referred
  • relevant
  • relieving
  • religious
  • remembrance
  • reminiscence
  • repetition
  • representative
  • rescind
  • resemblance
  • reservoir
  • resistance
  • restaurant
  • rheumatism
  • rhyme
  • rhythm
  • rhythmic
  • ridiculous
  • roommate
  • sacrifice
  • safety
  • salable
  • salary
  • satellite
  • scenery
  • schedule
  • secede
  • secretary
  • seize
  • separate
  • sergeant
  • several
  • shining
  • simile
  • simply
  • sincerely
  • skeptical
  • skiing
  • soliloquy
  • sophomore
  • souvenir
  • specifically
  • specimen
  • sponsor
  • spontaneous
  • statistics
  • stopped
  • strategy
  • strength
  • strenuous
  • stubbornness
  • subordinate
  • subtle
  • succeed
  • succession
  • suddenness
  • sufficient
  • summary
  • superintendent
  • supersede
  • supposed to
  • supposedly
  • suppress
  • surprise
  • surround
  • susceptible
  • suspicious
  • syllable
  • symbol
  • symmetrical
  • synonymous
  • tangible
  • tariff
  • technical
  • technique
  • temperature
  • tenant
  • tendency
  • tournament
  • tourniquet
  • tragedy
  • transferred
  • truly
  • twelfth
  • tyranny
  • unanimous
  • unfortunately
  • unnecessary
  • until
  • usage
  • usually
  • vacillate
  • vacuum
  • vengeance
  • vicious
  • vigilant
  • village
  • villain
  • violence
  • visible
  • wherever
  • wholly
  • whose/who
  • woman
  • women
  • writing
  • written
  • your/you're
  • zoology