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100 Most Often Misspelled Words In English. Many of these words you won't be using in your roleplaying threads but, just in case, it's nice to have this up here. Please, don't forget to try out that Dictionary - that will save you from looking through all these words.
- acceptable
- accidentally
- accommodate
- acquire
- acquit
- a lot [Even Margem has troubles with this one!]
- amateur
- apparent
- argument
- atheist
- believe
- bellwether
- calendar [I've had problems putting it as "calender".]
- category
- cemetery [I've actually tried to type it as "cementery".]
- changeable
- collectible
- column
- committed
- conscience
- conscientious
- conscious
- consensus
- daiquiri
- definite(ly)
- discipline
- drunkenness
- dumbbell
- embarrass(ment)
- equipment
- exhilarate
- exceed
- existence
- experience
- fiery
- foreign
- gauge
- grateful
- guarantee
- harass
- height
- hierarchy
- humorous
- ignorance
- immediate
- independent
- indispensable
- inoculate
- intelligence
- its/it's - The apostrophe marks a contraction of "it is." Something that belongs to it is "its."
- jewelry
-judgment
- kernel - {A kernel of corn. "Colonel" is said the same way but that is a military rank: the Colonel ordered his men to stand their ground as they were opposing the enemy in battle.|
- leisure
- liaison
- lightning - [Many times I have spelled this as "lightening" but that's not right...]
- maintenance
- maneuver
- medieval
- memento
-millennium
- miniature
- minuscule
- misspell
- neighbor
- noticeable
- occasionally
- occurrence
- pastime
- perseverance
- personnel
- playwright
- possession
- precede
-principal/principle - The spelling principle to remember here is that the school principal is a prince and a pal (despite appearances)--and the same applies to anything of foremost importance, such as a principal principle. A "principle" is a rule.
- privilege
- pronunciation
- publicly
- questionnaire
- receive/ receipt - [To receive something = to get something; a receipt is something from you get (that little piece of paper) when you buy something like gas or food or games, if you want it....]
- recommend
- referred
- reference
- relevant
- restaurant
- rhyme - Actually, "rime" was the correct spelling until 1650. After that, egg-heads began spelling it like "rhythm." Why? No rhyme nor reason other than to make it look like "rhythm."
- rhythm
- schedule
- seperate
- sergeant
- supersede
- their/they're/there - They're all pronounced the same but spelled differently. Possessive is "their" and the contraction of "they are" is "they're." Everywhere else, it is "there."
Aka. "That is their dog." "They're (they are) in love." "I'm going over there to get some ice cream."
- threshold
- twelfth
- tyranny
- until - I will never stop harping on this until this word is spelled with an extra [l] for the last time!
[Sometimes I forget this spelling and put "untill" but then correct it because it doesn't look right to me.]
- vacuum
- weather - [versus "whether". "Weather" is the topic you talk about when you're talking about the rain/sun/sleet/hail/snow. "The weather is nice today. Why don't you go and play, son?"
"Whether" is 'which one of the two'/'whichever one of the two'; it shows you that there are options. "Whether or not she likes it, Margem is going to do her homework!"
- weird - [Margem's just weird like that....]
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