We performed some research about English words that people regularly misspell. Interestingly, the most commonly misspelled words are different based on where the English speaker lives.
Some things that trip up native speakers when spelling English words include:
- Double letters, especially double consonants
- Different spellings for English/British/Australian spellings
- Homophones,
- Words with pronunciation different from the spelling
Most Common Mispellings In The English Language
Because English is the language of several different countries, breaking down common misspellings is more challenging. However, across the English-speaking world, there are certain words that regularly come up in searches for how to spell. These include:
- accommodation
- achieve
- across
- address
- appearance
- beginning
- business
- colleague
- committee
- conscious
- dependence
- desirable
- embarrass
- environment
- forty
- independence
- interrupt
- knowledge
- lightning
- misspell
- necessary
- calendar
- definitely
- tomorrow
- noticeable
- convenient
- disappear
- argument
- Wednesday
- occurred
- opportunity
- queue
- speech
- truly
- leisure
- seize
- weird
- interesting
- knowledge
- pastime
- pursue
- potato
- preceding
- pronunciation
- Correct: receive
- recommend
- rhythm
- schedule
- siege
- sentence
- separate
- sincerely
- tendency
- until
- vacuum
- vegetarian
- wherever
- written
- finally
- government
- grammar
- happened
- existence
- familiar
- foreign
- further
