Commonly Misspelled & Confused Words
English words evolved from a variety of other languages. Worse, how we pronounce words has continued to change, so phonetic spelling is problematic. Yes, once we really did pronounce the “k” and “g” sounds in “knight.” The following is a list of words commonly misspelled or confused with other words.
[A] [B] [C]
[D] [E] [F] [G]
[H] [I] [J] [K]
[L] [M]
[N] [O] [P] [Q]
[R] [S] [T] [U]
[V] [W] [X] [Y]
[Z]
- A -
| absence accept accomplish accommodation accumulate accurate achievement acquaintance across advertisement advice advise |
aggravate agitator a lot answer appropriate archaeology argument article athlete attendance auxiliary available |
- B -
| beautiful beginning behavior beneficial |
breath breathe business |
- C -
| calendar carcass ceiling certainly chameleon chief choice choose chose commercial committee |
competition concentrate congratulate conscience conscientious conscious consequently convenience counselor criticism criticize |
- D -
| definitely desperate describe develop different |
difference disappoint disease doesn't during |
- E -
| eighth embarrass encyclopedia entrance envelope environment especially exaggerate |
except existence expedient experience experiment explanation extremely |
- F -
| familiar fascinate |
February foreign |
- G -
| genealogy genius government grammar |
guarantee guild guillotine |
- H -
| harass | height |
- I -
| idiosyncrasy immediate important independence integration intellectual |
interest interesting interfere interrupt irrelevant |
- J -
| jewelry | judgment |
- K -
| knowledge |
- L -
| laboratory leisure license liquorice |
loneliness loose lose |
- M -
| maintenance marriage mathematics medieval |
mischief mischievous misspell |
- N -
| necessary niece |
ninety ninth |
- O -
| occasion occurrence opinion |
opportunity original optimist |
- P -
| particular pastime perform perhaps phony physical possess prefer |
prejudiced prevalent privilege probably pronunciation psychology pursue |
- Q -
| quiet | quite |
- R -
| realize recommend restaurant |
rhythm ridiculous |
- S -
| scenery schedule secretary separate similar since |
sincerely speech straight strength surprise |
- T -
| temperature through |
thorough tomorrow |
- U -
| unnecessary | unusually |
- V -
- W -
| Wednesday | weird |