The 25 most commonly misspelled words in America
These are the words everyday that people in the United States can not stop spelling.
In this era of autocorrection and orthographic verification, it is easier than ever to spell things properly. But even with advanced technology at our disposal, there is still aword handle that we lack consistently. Which sees the most coherent spelling violations? We have consulted a number of resources, including Merriam-Webster, Google and Oxford English Corpus (an electronic collection of more than 2 billion words that the writers of the English Oxford dictionary use to see how people use language). Together, they helped us reduce it to a list of the 25 most commonly spelled words of the English language. And for more spelling errors, check these33 names of celebrities that you always miss.
1 Accommodate
The accommodation, whether with reference to a place where you stay for holidays or a place where you have been living for years, are better when they are generous. But we tend to lesinate during spelling of speech, which gave it just a "M" when it is supposed to have two. TheOXFORD ENGLISH Corpuslists "welcome" as one of hisTop misspelled words. And for more common words, you might be confused, study these50 words that you hear every day but I do not know what they mean.
2 Connection
This second "I" translated everyone, winning "Link" a leading score for trouble spelling in Merriam-WebsterSpell, agame that tests if readers canFrequently pull proud words. He also won a place on the list of Oxford the most commonly misspelled words.
3 Lollipop
We each have our own way of eating these sweet treats, whether it's sucking it, licking it or getting down on it. But there is only one way to spell it properly, and it is with a "I" and not a "y". Oxford lists this as another of the most frequently spelled words.
4 Beautiful
All these vowels just in advance you really throw us. According to the list of Google trends ofWords the most misspelled by the state, our attempts to spell "beautiful" can become quite ugly."Beautiful" Tops The list of words difficult to spell in an 11 states, by far the most of any word on the list. And for some words, we borrowed from all over the world, here35 commonly used words, we totally stole other languages.
5 tomorrow
On the Google Trends list, this one was the most misspelled word in Montana. And according to the English corpus Oxford, "Tomorrow" is a word that most of us seem to have trouble struggling. We are mixed and duplicate the "M" instead of "R".
6 Who
To be fair, this one is obliged to cause confusion, thanks to its homophones. There is the kind of halloween of "witch" and "edible sandwich". Our spelling tendency incorrectly the adject-pronoun hybrid "which" has earned a place on the list of words of oxford commonly misspelled words. And for more fun content delivered directly into your inbox,Sign up for our daily newsletter.
7 Unexpected
You may not have seen that to come, but "unforeseen" landed on the Oxford list, because of the fact that we are used to drop the first "e" of speech.
8 Particularity
This is another part of the Merriam-Webster spell game. The most common way we stunned "idiosyncrasy" is sampling the penultimate "s" for a "c."
9 To remember
Here is another difficult word to go out, according to Merriam-Webster, thanks to this combo of "s" and "c" at the end. And if you want to remember,This is the most tubular staircase word every year from 1940 to today.
10 Unfortunately
Unfortunately, we tend to forget that there is an "e" in this word. It is on the most misspelled word oxford list.
11 On the other side
We like to add an additional "C" to that word. This habit helped win a place on the list of frequent Oxford errors.
12 Aggression
Provides, we are not as aggressive with the letter "G", as we should be when it comes to spelling "aggression".We have the opposite problem here we make "through", abandoning one of its first consonants.
13 Remember
Remember that this word has "MEM" in the midst of that. We seem to prefer short memories, cut the word for simply "rember" or "rebaches" when typing. Oxford lists it among the most misspelled words of the English language.
14 Seat
AllSteven Seabal Fan should know how to spell this one butUnder seatdoes not seem to have the following both.It became common that we exchange the "I" and "E", which made "seat" one of Oxford's spelled words.
15 To replace
It is understandable that a word that concerns the power dynamics requires us to want to include the word "ceded" -as in, give up - but it's not how to "replace" is spelled.Our difficulty in doing so has led the Oxford English Corpus to enumerate it as one of the most commonly misspelled words.
16 Tattoo
Perhaps we have to permanently write to our bodies than "tattoo" has a second "t". This is one of the most misspelled words in English, according to Oxford.
17 Government
The work of a government is to govern, not "Gerser", but we are used to forgetting that, often spelled "government", according to Oxford.
18 Essential
This is one of thoseWords that you hear a lotBut could not write so often, so it's easy to hear "Jist". After all, anyone discussed thehave a good way to pronounce A ".gif file" can appreciate the difficulty of the challenge of pronunciation "J" / "G".Oxford enumerated as one of the most difficult words to spell.
19 Various
This is not surprising why we tend to shorten this to "misc." Whenever we can - this is difficult to spell properly. It's actually one of the most difficult to spelle in the spelling of Merriam-Webster. We tend to add a "S" that should not be there, or drop a "l" that should.
20 Occurrence
This one is a perfect storm of spelling traps. There are the two pairs of double letters and the penultimate "e" thatseemsAs if it should be an "a", according to how youpronounce the word.
21 Apparently
Apparently, we all need a lesson on how to spell "apparently", with an "ent", not an "ant". The Oxford English Corpus lists it in its round of words commonly misspelled.
22 Calendar
With "calendar" we have the opposite problem we have with "apparently" -s -s -s-about an "E" for the last "A" and the end with "calendar", according to Oxford .
23 Independent
This word has nothing to do with a "pendant" that you would wear around your neck, but we tend to want to go out the "E" at the end of the word for an "A".
24 Persistent
If you keep there, you will be able to master the spelling of this shaded word. Similar to "independent", we are used to putting an "A" where the last "E" belongs, making the words that we often flock, by Oxford.
25 Propaganda
We like to spell this one "Propoganda", according to Oxford, which lists the word among the most misspelled.