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Tuesday, August 20, 2019

The 201 Most Commonly Misspelled Words in English

With a little practice, you can improve your spelling. Begin by reviewing this list of 201 of some of the most commonly misspelled words in English, including advice on how to remember the correct spelling and how to use the words in a sentence. When you're done, test your ability to spell these words with spelling review exercisesand a quiz on 25 commonly misspelled words.

Commonly Misspelled Words

The following table includes the word in the first column, tips such as advice or mnemonic devices for remembering the correct spelling in column two, and the word used correctly in a sentence in column three.

Where appropriate, some letters are intentionally uppercased while others are lowercased to make the mnemonic device more useful.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The one word I hear misused and misspelled the most is irregardless. It's not even a word, but used so much that it's in spell-check.
It's a combination of irrespective and regardless. So, putting 'ir' in front of it negates the meaning of regardless.
There, now you can sleep tonight...or get IR words on Jeopardy.

Anonymous said...

I see to, too, & two didn't make it. Neither did their, there or they're. Really irritating when that shows up.

Anonymous said...

Microphone on cell phones alot of times don't pick correct spelling either ...just saying ...you know ..we lazy lazy lazy ..lol