
This is a list of common misspellings in the English language. {| !MISSPELLING||CORRECT SPELLING |- |abberration||aberration |- |accomodation||accommodation |- |acheive||achieve |- |adress||address |- |ad nauseum||ad nauseam (some spell-checkers get this one wrong) |- |alterior||ulterior |- |athiest||atheist |- |autum||autumn |- |befor||before |- |beggining||beginning |- |beleive||believe |- |Britian||Britain |- |Caucasion||Caucasian |- |cemetary||cemetery |- |committment||commitment (but committed, committing, committee) |- |concensus||consensus |- |concieve||conceive |- |Dalmation||Dalmatian |- |decaffinated||decaffeinated |- |decathalon||decathlon |- |definately||definitely |- |desireable||desirable |- |diety||deity (error promulgated by an early Unix spell-checker) |- |diptheria||diphtheria |- |dispell||dispel |- |ecx., exc.||etc. (for et cetera) |- |embarass||embarrass |- |enviroment||environment |- |expresso||espresso |- |extremly||extremely |- |facist||fascist |- |Febuary||February |- |flourescent||fluorescent |- |flouride||fluoride |- |fourty||forty |- |freind||friend |- |geneology||genealogy |- |geuss||guess |- |goverment||government |- |grammer||grammar |- |hampster||hamster |- |harrass||harass |- |heros||heroes |- |hieght, heigth||height |- |hunderd||hundred |- |hygeine||hygiene |- |hypocracy||hypocrisy |- |independance||independence |- |innoculate||inoculate |- |intresting||interesting |- |knowlege||knowledge |- |libary||library |- |lightening||lightning |- |mabey||maybe |- |masterbate||masturbate |- |managable||manageable |- |millenium||millennium |- |miniscule||minuscule |- |mischievious||mischievous |- |mispell||misspell |- |missle||missile |- |mit||mitt (except for MIT, or Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |- |monestary||monastery (remember that "monastic" is not "monestic") |- |monkies||monkeys (except for the 1960s rock group, who are The Monkees) |- |morgage||mortgage |- |mountian||mountain |- |neccessary||necessary |- |neice||niece |- |nickle||nickel |- |nineth||ninth |- |ninty||ninety |- |noticable||noticeable |- |occured||occurred |- |occurence||occurrence |- |oppurtunity||opportunity |- |opthamologist||ophthalmologist |- |paralell||parallel |- |pasttime||pastime |- |peice||piece |- |percieve||perceive |- |perserverance||perseverance |- |persue||pursue |- |posession||possession |- |pertend||pretend |- |Pharoah||Pharaoh (except for Pharoah Sanders) |- |Phosphorous||Phosphorus (unless specifically phosphorus(III)) |- |Pokeman||Pokémon |- |potatoe||potato |- |preceeding||preceding |- |pronounciation||pronunciation |- |publically||publicly (the one exception to the -ically rule) |- |rasberry||raspberry |- |recieve||receive |- |reccomend||recommend |- |rediculous||ridiculous |- |reguardless||regardless |- |rythm||rhythm (but eurythmics) |- |sacreligious||sacrilegious |- |Saterday||Saturday (remember that it's named after the god Saturn) |- |seige||siege |- |sentance||sentence |- |seperate||separate |- |sherbert||sherbet |- |sieze||seize |- |similiar||similar |- |sincerly||sincerely |- |speach||speech |- |stagitory||statutory |- |suggestable||suggestible |- |supercede||supersede |- |suprise||surprise |- |thier||their |- |tommorrow||tomorrow |- |tounge||tongue |- |triathalon||triathlon |- |ukelele||ukulele |- |vaccuum||vacuum |- |vegeterian||vegetarian |- |villian||villain |- |Wendesday||Wednesday |- |wierd||weird |- |writting||writing |} ==See also== * List of commonly confused homonyms * List of frequently misused English words * Wikipedia:List of common misspellings for a larger list Lists of English words
I did a search for the misspelling: beleive, found many pages of them, but with my Firefox browser, I was not able to easily find the misspellings within the edit page. Any suggestions? What browsers are best for fixing these common errors? :Although Firefox is a great browser, it isn't able to search within the edit box. Internet Explorer can, so I suggest using IE for that. User:The Living Peanut 12:05, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
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List of common misspellings in English
This is a list of common misspellings in the English language. {| !MISSPELLING||CORRECT SPELLING |- |abberration||aberration |- |accomodation||accommodation |- |acheive||achieve |- |adress||address |- |ad nauseum||ad nauseam (some spell-checkers get this one wrong) |- |alterior||ulterior |- |athiest||atheist |- |autum||autumn |- |befor||before |- |beggining||beginning |- |beleive||believe |- |Britian||Britain |- |Caucasion||Caucasian |- |cemetary||cemetery |- |committment||commitment (but committed, committing, committee) |- |concensus||consensus |- |concieve||conceive |- |Dalmation||Dalmatian |- |decaffinated||decaffeinated |- |decathalon||decathlon |- |definately||definitely |- |desireable||desirable |- |diety||deity (error promulgated by an early Unix spell-checker) |- |diptheria||diphtheria |- |dispell||dispel |- |ecx., exc.||etc. (for et cetera) |- |embarass||embarrass |- |enviroment||environment |- |expresso||espresso |- |extremly||extremely |- |facist||fascist |- |Febuary||February |- |flourescent||fluorescent |- |flouride||fluoride |- |fourty||forty |- |freind||friend |- |geneology||genealogy |- |geuss||guess |- |goverment||government |- |grammer||grammar |- |hampster||hamster |- |harrass||harass |- |heros||heroes |- |hieght, heigth||height |- |hunderd||hundred |- |hygeine||hygiene |- |hypocracy||hypocrisy |- |independance||independence |- |innoculate||inoculate |- |intresting||interesting |- |knowlege||knowledge |- |libary||library |- |lightening||lightning |- |mabey||maybe |- |masterbate||masturbate |- |managable||manageable |- |millenium||millennium |- |miniscule||minuscule |- |mischievious||mischievous |- |mispell||misspell |- |missle||missile |- |mit||mitt (except for MIT, or Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |- |monestary||monastery (remember that "monastic" is not "monestic") |- |monkies||monkeys (except for the 1960s rock group, who are The Monkees) |- |morgage||mortgage |- |mountian||mountain |- |neccessary||necessary |- |neice||niece |- |nickle||nickel |- |nineth||ninth |- |ninty||ninety |- |noticable||noticeable |- |occured||occurred |- |occurence||occurrence |- |oppurtunity||opportunity |- |opthamologist||ophthalmologist |- |paralell||parallel |- |pasttime||pastime |- |peice||piece |- |percieve||perceive |- |perserverance||perseverance |- |persue||pursue |- |posession||possession |- |pertend||pretend |- |Pharoah||Pharaoh (except for Pharoah Sanders) |- |Phosphorous||Phosphorus (unless specifically phosphorus(III)) |- |Pokeman||Pokémon |- |potatoe||potato |- |preceeding||preceding |- |pronounciation||pronunciation |- |publically||publicly (the one exception to the -ically rule) |- |rasberry||raspberry |- |recieve||receive |- |reccomend||recommend |- |rediculous||ridiculous |- |reguardless||regardless |- |rythm||rhythm (but eurythmics) |- |sacreligious||sacrilegious |- |Saterday||Saturday (remember that it's named after the god Saturn) |- |seige||siege |- |sentance||sentence |- |seperate||separate |- |sherbert||sherbet |- |sieze||seize |- |similiar||similar |- |sincerly||sincerely |- |speach||speech |- |stagitory||statutory |- |suggestable||suggestible |- |supercede||supersede |- |suprise||surprise |- |thier||their |- |tommorrow||tomorrow |- |tounge||tongue |- |triathalon||triathlon |- |ukelele||ukulele |- |vaccuum||vacuum |- |vegeterian||vegetarian |- |villian||villain |- |Wendesday||Wednesday |- |wierd||weird |- |writting||writing |} ==See also== * List of commonly confused homonyms * List of frequently misused English words * Wikipedia:List of common misspellings for a larger list Lists of English words
List of common misspellings in English
I did a search for the misspelling: beleive, found many pages of them, but with my Firefox browser, I was not able to easily find the misspellings within the edit page. Any suggestions? What browsers are best for fixing these common errors? :Although Firefox is a great browser, it isn't able to search within the edit box. Internet Explorer can, so I suggest using IE for that. User:The Living Peanut 12:05, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
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