300 Top Common English Spelling Mistakes

English spelling can be tricky because English is not 100 percent phonetic and there are so many exceptions. Here is the top common English spelling mistakes according to the Oxford English Corpus. The table below gives the correct spelling of the word. So, you can check to see if any of the same mistakes have been tripping you up.

A absence acceptable accessible accommodate, accommodation accomplish achievement acquire across address advertisement advice –(noun) advise –(verb) aggressive, aggression amateur apartment apparently appearance argument athletic attendance assassination B basically begin, beginning belief –indicating the noun believe –indicating the verb beneficial bizarre business C calendar campaign Caribbean category cemetery challenge characteristic chauffeur| cigarette clothes column colleague committee commitment completely condemn conscience conscientious conscious controversy convenient correspondence criticism curiosity D deceive definitely definition department describe despair desperate development difference difficult dilemma disappear disappoint, disappointed discipline disease E easily ecstasy effect eighth either embarrass encouragement enemy entirely environment especially exaggerate excellent existence experience experiment F Fahrenheit familiar February finally financial fluorescent foreign foreigner foreseeable formerly forty fourth further G general generally genius gist glamorous government grammar grateful guarantee guard guidance H happily happened harass, harassment height heroes honorary humorous hypocrite I ideally idiosyncrasy imaginary immediate, immediately incidentally incredible independent influential insurance intelligent interference interrupt introduce irresistible island its –for possession it's –for "it is" or "it has" J jealous jealousy K kneel knowledge L later legitimate length liaise, liaison library lightning likely lollipop loneliness lose (verb) loose (adjective) lovely luxurious

M maintain maintenance manageable management manufacture marriage married millennium, millennia millionaire misspell mischievous money mortgage muscle mysterious N naturally Neanderthal necessary neighbor, neighbour ninety noticeable nowadays O obedient obstacle occasion occurred, occurring occurrence official opinion opportunity opposition ordinary originally P particular pavilion peculiar perceive performance permanent persistent personal personnel pharaoh physical physician piece pleasant politician Portuguese possession possible possibility potatoes practically prefer, preferred, preferring privilege professor professional pronounce, pronunciation propaganda psychology psychological publicly Q quantity quality questionnaire queue quizzes R realistic realize really receipt receive recognize recommend referred, referring religion religious remember representative resistance restaurant rhythm ridiculous roommate S sacrifice safety scared scenery schedule secretary sentence sense separate siege similar sincerely strength supersede surprise suspicious success successful T tattoo technical technique temperature temporary tendency their (possessed by them) there (not here) therefore they're (contraction of "they are") themselves –not themself threshold tomorrow tongue truly U undoubtedly unforgettable unforeseen unfortunately unique until V valuable village violence violent vision volume W weather –indicating climate –The weather is nice today. Wednesday weird whether –(indicating if) wherever which woman –(singular) women –(plural) worthwhile width writing X Y Z yacht young

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