The Most Frequently Misspelled Words in the English Language

English, with its vast vocabulary and quirky spellings, can be quite a challenge even for the seasoned scribe. Whether you're penning your first novel, drafting an important email, or just trying to leave an error-free comment on social media, a few words might trip you up more than others.

Some of these may surprise you, while others will have you nodding in agreement, recalling the number of times autocorrect had to step in.

Here they are, in alphabetical order:

  1. Accommodate - Remember, it has room for two 'm's and two 'o's!
  2. Acquire
  3. Amateur
  4. Apparent
  5. Argument - Only one 'e' is needed.
  6. Atheist
  7. Believe - As the old saying goes, “i before e, except after c.”
  8. Calendar
  9. Cemetery - No 'a' here.
  10. Collectible
  11. Column - Silent 'n' at the end.
  12. Conscience - Not to be confused with "conscious."
  13. Consensus
  14. Definitely - There's no 'a' in definite.
  15. Dilemma
  16. Disappear - Double 'p' and one 's'.
  17. Discipline
  18. Drunkenness
  19. Embarrass - Two 'r's and two 's's.
  20. Environment
  21. Existence
  22. Fierce
  23. Fluorescent
  24. Foreign - It’s "e before i" in this case.
  25. Gauge
  26. Grateful - Not to be mistaken with "greatful."
  27. Harass
  28. Height - It ends with 'ht', not 'th'.
  29. Humorous
  30. Ignorance
  31. Immediately
  32. Independent
  33. Indispensable
  34. Innocent
  35. Intelligence
  36. Jewelry - In the U.S., it's "jewelry." In the U.K., it's "jewellery."
  37. Judgment - No 'e' after the 'g'.
  38. Leisure
  39. Liaison
  40. Library - Not "liberry."
  41. License
  42. Lightning - Not to be confused with "lightening."
  43. Maintenance
  44. Millennium - Double 'l' and double 'n'.
  45. Miniature
  46. Minuscule - Starts with "minus," not "mini."
  47. Mischievous - The 'i' comes before 'e'.
  48. Misspell - Ironically, one of the easiest words to misspell.
  49. Neighbor
  50. Noticeable - Keep the 'e' when adding -able.

Bookmark this list or print it out, and the next time you're in doubt about the spelling of a word, refer back. Remember, even the best of us can get tripped up by English spelling from time to time. Practice makes perfect!

Source: 247WALLST

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