Commonly misspelled words: the TypoFind top 100 list.
English spelling is full of silent letters, doubled consonants, unstressed vowels, and endings that sound alike. This guide explains the most commonly misspelled words in the TypoFind quiz and gives a clear reason each word trips people up.
Top 100 commonly misspelled words
accommodate
Common misspellings: accomodate, acommodate, acomodate, accommoate.
Choose the word that means to provide room or fit a need.
accommodate is often misspelled because double c, double m. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
achievement
Common misspellings: acheivement, achieement, ahcievement, acihevement.
Choose the word that means something accomplished.
achievement is often misspelled because i before e after h does not apply here. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
acknowledge
Common misspellings: aknowledge, acknowlege, akcnowledge, acnkowledge.
Choose the word that means to accept or recognize.
acknowledge is often misspelled because keep the c and the d. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
acquaintance
Common misspellings: acquaintence, aquaintance, aqcuaintance, acuqaintance.
Choose the word that means a person one knows slightly.
acquaintance is often misspelled because acquaint ends with -ance. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
acquire
Common misspellings: aquire, acquie, aqcuire, acuqire.
Choose the word that means to get or obtain.
acquire is often misspelled because the c follows the a. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
across
Common misspellings: accross, acros, arcoss, acorss.
Choose the word that means from one side to another.
across is often misspelled because only one c. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
address
Common misspellings: adress, addres, adres, adrdess.
Choose the word that means a location or formal speech.
address is often misspelled because double d, double s. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
amateur
Common misspellings: amature, aateur, aamteur, amtaeur.
Choose the word that means nonprofessional.
amateur is often misspelled because ends with -eur. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
apparent
Common misspellings: aparent, apparant, apperent, appaent.
Choose the word that means clearly visible or understood.
apparent is often misspelled because two p letters, then -ent. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
argument
Common misspellings: arguement, ergument, arguent, agrument.
Choose the word that means a reasoned exchange.
argument is often misspelled because drop the e from argue. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
attendance
Common misspellings: attendence, atendance, atetndance, attnedance.
Choose the word that means being present.
attendance is often misspelled because ends with -ance. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
basically
Common misspellings: basicly, basicaly, baically, bsaically.
Choose the word that means in a basic way.
basically is often misspelled because keep the -ally ending. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
beginning
Common misspellings: beggining, begining, beinning, bgeinning.
Choose the word that means the start.
beginning is often misspelled because double n in the middle. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
believe
Common misspellings: beleive, beieve, bleieve, beileve.
Choose the word that means to accept as true.
believe is often misspelled because i before e in believe. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
bizarre
Common misspellings: bizare, bizzare, bizerre, biarre.
Choose the word that means strange or unusual.
bizarre is often misspelled because one z, double r. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
business
Common misspellings: buisness, busness, busines, buiness.
Choose the word that means commerce or work.
business is often misspelled because business hides the i after s. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
calendar
Common misspellings: calender, caendar, claendar, caelndar.
Choose the word that means date system.
calendar is often misspelled because ends with -ar. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
Caribbean
Common misspellings: Carribean, Carribbean, ceribbean, caribean.
Choose the word that means region of the Caribbean Sea.
Caribbean is often misspelled because one r, double b. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
cemetery
Common misspellings: cemetary, ceetery, cmeetery, ceemtery.
Choose the word that means burial ground.
cemetery is often misspelled because all three vowels are e. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
colleague
Common misspellings: collegue, coleague, colleaue, cloleague.
Choose the word that means coworker.
colleague is often misspelled because keep the -league ending. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
committee
Common misspellings: commitee, comittee, comitee, cmomittee.
Choose the word that means a group appointed for work.
committee is often misspelled because double m, double t, double e. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
conscience
Common misspellings: consciense, consceince, consciance, cnoscience.
Choose the word that means moral sense.
conscience is often misspelled because science sits inside conscience. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
conscious
Common misspellings: concious, cnoscious, cosncious, concsious.
Choose the word that means awake or aware.
conscious is often misspelled because add the s after con. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
definitely
Common misspellings: definately, definatly, deinitely, dfeinitely.
Choose the word that means without doubt.
definitely is often misspelled because think finite, not final. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
dependent
Common misspellings: dependant, deendent, dpeendent, deepndent.
Choose the word that means relying on something.
dependent is often misspelled because the adjective usually ends -ent. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
desperate
Common misspellings: desparate, despeate, dseperate, depserate.
Choose the word that means having urgent need.
desperate is often misspelled because the second vowel is e. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
dilemma
Common misspellings: dilemna, dilema, diemma, dliemma.
Choose the word that means a difficult choice.
dilemma is often misspelled because no n. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
disappear
Common misspellings: dissapear, disapear, disappeer, diappear.
Choose the word that means to vanish.
disappear is often misspelled because dis + appear. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
discipline
Common misspellings: disipline, disciplie, dsicipline, dicsipline.
Choose the word that means training or control.
discipline is often misspelled because keep the sc. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
drunkenness
Common misspellings: drunkeness, drunkenes, durnkenness, drnukenness.
Choose the word that means state of being drunk.
drunkenness is often misspelled because double n before -ess. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
embarrass
Common misspellings: embarass, embarras, emberrass, embaras.
Choose the word that means to cause shame.
embarrass is often misspelled because double r, double s. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
environment
Common misspellings: enviroment, envionment, evnironment, enivronment.
Choose the word that means surroundings.
environment is often misspelled because keep the n after enviro. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
exaggerate
Common misspellings: exagerate, exxagerate, exaggarate, eaggerate.
Choose the word that means to overstate.
exaggerate is often misspelled because double g. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
excellent
Common misspellings: exellent, excelent, ecxellent, execllent.
Choose the word that means very good.
excellent is often misspelled because the c is followed by double l. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
existence
Common misspellings: existance, eistence, eixstence, exsitence.
Choose the word that means state of existing.
existence is often misspelled because ends with -ence. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
experience
Common misspellings: experiance, expereince, exparience, expeience.
Choose the word that means knowledge from events.
experience is often misspelled because ends with -ence. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
February
Common misspellings: Febuary, februery, fberuary, ferbuary.
Choose the word that means second month.
February is often misspelled because the first r is quiet but present. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
foreign
Common misspellings: foriegn, foeign, froeign, foerign.
Choose the word that means from another country.
foreign is often misspelled because e before i. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
forty
Common misspellings: fourty, froty, fotry, foryt.
Choose the word that means number 40.
forty is often misspelled because drop the u from four. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
friend
Common misspellings: freind, firend, frined, friedn.
Choose the word that means person with affection.
friend is often misspelled because friend ends with -iend. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
gauge
Common misspellings: guage, gaue, gague, gaueg.
Choose the word that means measure or instrument.
gauge is often misspelled because the a comes before u. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
government
Common misspellings: goverment, govarnment, goernment, gvoernment.
Choose the word that means public authority.
government is often misspelled because keep the n. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
grammar
Common misspellings: grammer, gramar, garmmar, grmamar.
Choose the word that means language rules.
grammar is often misspelled because ends with -ar. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
guarantee
Common misspellings: garantee, guarentee, guerantee, guaantee.
Choose the word that means formal promise.
guarantee is often misspelled because the gua- opening matters. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
harass
Common misspellings: harrass, herass, haras, haass.
Choose the word that means to bother repeatedly.
harass is often misspelled because one r, double s. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
height
Common misspellings: heighth, hieght, hegiht, heihgt.
Choose the word that means distance upward.
height is often misspelled because ends with -eight. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
humorous
Common misspellings: humourous, huorous, hmuorous, huomrous.
Choose the word that means funny.
humorous is often misspelled because us spelling drops the u after humor. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
ignorance
Common misspellings: ignorence, ignoance, ingorance, igonrance.
Choose the word that means lack of knowledge.
ignorance is often misspelled because ends with -ance. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
immediate
Common misspellings: immediatly, imediate, immeiate, imemdiate.
Choose the word that means without delay.
immediate is often misspelled because double m and the -ate ending. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
independent
Common misspellings: independant, indeendent, idnependent, inedpendent.
Choose the word that means self-governing.
independent is often misspelled because ends with -ent. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
indispensable
Common misspellings: indispensible, idnispensable, inidspensable, indsipensable.
Choose the word that means absolutely necessary.
indispensable is often misspelled because ends with -able. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
intelligence
Common misspellings: inteligence, intelligance, intellience, itnelligence.
Choose the word that means mental capacity.
intelligence is often misspelled because double l, ends -ence. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
jewelry
Common misspellings: jewelery, jeelry, jweelry, jeewlry.
Choose the word that means ornaments.
jewelry is often misspelled because us spelling is jewelry. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
judgment
Common misspellings: judgement, jdugment, jugdment, judmgent.
Choose the word that means decision or opinion.
judgment is often misspelled because us legal style often drops the e. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
knowledge
Common misspellings: knowlege, konwledge, knwoledge, knolwedge.
Choose the word that means understanding.
knowledge is often misspelled because keep the d. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
liaison
Common misspellings: liason, liaion, laiison, liiason.
Choose the word that means communication link.
liaison is often misspelled because the second i is easy to miss. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
library
Common misspellings: libary, librery, lbirary, lirbary.
Choose the word that means book collection.
library is often misspelled because the first r is quiet but present. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
license
Common misspellings: lisence, licence, liense, lciense.
Choose the word that means official permission.
license is often misspelled because us noun and verb are license. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
maintenance
Common misspellings: maintainance, maintenence, mainteance, miantenance.
Choose the word that means upkeep.
maintenance is often misspelled because maintenance changes maintain. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
maneuver
Common misspellings: manuever, maneuvar, maeuver, mnaeuver.
Choose the word that means skillful movement.
maneuver is often misspelled because us spelling uses -euver. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
millennium
Common misspellings: milennium, millenium, milenium, mlilennium.
Choose the word that means period of a thousand years.
millennium is often misspelled because double l and double n. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
miniature
Common misspellings: minature, miiature, mniiature, miinature.
Choose the word that means very small version.
miniature is often misspelled because keep the second i. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
mischievous
Common misspellings: mischevious, mischeivous, mischieous, msichievous.
Choose the word that means playfully troublesome.
mischievous is often misspelled because no extra i after v. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
necessary
Common misspellings: neccessary, necesary, necessery, neessary.
Choose the word that means required.
necessary is often misspelled because one c, double s. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
neighbor
Common misspellings: nieghbor, negihbor, neihgbor, neigbhor.
Choose the word that means nearby resident.
neighbor is often misspelled because e before i in neighbor. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
noticeable
Common misspellings: noticable, noticeible, noiceable, ntoiceable.
Choose the word that means easy to notice.
noticeable is often misspelled because keep the e to soften c. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
occasion
Common misspellings: ocassion, occassion, ocasion, occaion.
Choose the word that means event or time.
occasion is often misspelled because double c, one s. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
occurred
Common misspellings: occured, ocurred, ocured, ocucrred.
Choose the word that means happened.
occurred is often misspelled because double c and double r. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
occurrence
Common misspellings: occurence, ocurrence, occurrance, ocurence.
Choose the word that means an event.
occurrence is often misspelled because double c, double r, -ence. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
omitted
Common misspellings: omited, oitted, oimtted, omtited.
Choose the word that means left out.
omitted is often misspelled because double t. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
opportunity
Common misspellings: oppurtunity, oppertunity, oportunity, opportuity.
Choose the word that means a chance.
opportunity is often misspelled because double p, then ortunity. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
parallel
Common misspellings: paralell, parrallel, perallel, paralel.
Choose the word that means side by side.
parallel is often misspelled because one r, double l at end. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
pastime
Common misspellings: passtime, pastie, psatime, patsime.
Choose the word that means hobby.
pastime is often misspelled because past + time, one s. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
perseverance
Common misspellings: perserverance, perseverence, parseverance, perseerance.
Choose the word that means steady persistence.
perseverance is often misspelled because persevere loses the second r. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
personnel
Common misspellings: personel, parsonnel, presonnel, pesronnel.
Choose the word that means staff.
personnel is often misspelled because double n, double l. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
playwright
Common misspellings: playwrite, palywright, plyawright, plawyright.
Choose the word that means writer of plays.
playwright is often misspelled because a wright makes things. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
possession
Common misspellings: posession, possesion, posesion, psosession.
Choose the word that means ownership.
possession is often misspelled because double s twice. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
precede
Common misspellings: preceed, preede, percede, prceede.
Choose the word that means to come before.
precede is often misspelled because ends with -cede. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
privilege
Common misspellings: privelege, priviledge, priilege, pirvilege.
Choose the word that means special right.
privilege is often misspelled because no d. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
pronunciation
Common misspellings: pronounciation, prounciation, pornunciation, prnounciation.
Choose the word that means way a word is spoken.
pronunciation is often misspelled because pronounce becomes pronunciation. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
publicly
Common misspellings: publically, pbulicly, pulbicly, pubilcly.
Choose the word that means in public.
publicly is often misspelled because public + ly. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
questionnaire
Common misspellings: questionaire, questionnaie, qeustionnaire, qusetionnaire.
Choose the word that means set of questions.
questionnaire is often misspelled because double n. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
receive
Common misspellings: recieve, reeive, rceeive, reecive.
Choose the word that means to get.
receive is often misspelled because i before e except after c. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
recommend
Common misspellings: reccommend, recomend, reommend, rceommend.
Choose the word that means to advise.
recommend is often misspelled because one c, double m. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
referred
Common misspellings: refered, refarred, reerred, rfeerred.
Choose the word that means mentioned or directed.
referred is often misspelled because double r before -ed. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
relevant
Common misspellings: relevent, reevant, rleevant, reelvant.
Choose the word that means connected to the matter.
relevant is often misspelled because ends with -ant. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
restaurant
Common misspellings: restaraunt, resturant, restauant, rsetaurant.
Choose the word that means place to eat.
restaurant is often misspelled because the au pair appears twice. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
rhythm
Common misspellings: rythm, rhythym, ryhthm, rhtyhm.
Choose the word that means pattern of beats.
rhythm is often misspelled because a vowel-light classic. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
schedule
Common misspellings: schedual, scheule, shcedule, scehdule.
Choose the word that means timetable.
schedule is often misspelled because ends with -ule. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
separate
Common misspellings: seperate, searate, spearate, seaprate.
Choose the word that means apart.
separate is often misspelled because there is a rat in separate. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
sergeant
Common misspellings: sargent, sargeant, sregeant, segreant.
Choose the word that means military rank.
sergeant is often misspelled because the gea is unexpected. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
successful
Common misspellings: succesful, successfull, sucesful, scucessful.
Choose the word that means achieving a goal.
successful is often misspelled because double c, double s, one l at end. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
supersede
Common misspellings: supercede, suparsede, suersede, spuersede.
Choose the word that means to replace.
supersede is often misspelled because only common english word ending -sede. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
surprise
Common misspellings: suprise, surprize, surprie, sruprise.
Choose the word that means unexpected event.
surprise is often misspelled because keep both r letters. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
threshold
Common misspellings: threshhold, trheshold, thershold, thrsehold.
Choose the word that means entry point.
threshold is often misspelled because one h in the middle. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
tomorrow
Common misspellings: tommorow, tomorow, toorrow, tmoorrow.
Choose the word that means the day after today.
tomorrow is often misspelled because one m, double r. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
twelfth
Common misspellings: twelth, tewlfth, twlefth, tweflth.
Choose the word that means number 12 in order.
twelfth is often misspelled because keep the f. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
tyranny
Common misspellings: tyrany, tryanny, tyarnny, tyrnany.
Choose the word that means cruel rule.
tyranny is often misspelled because double n. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
until
Common misspellings: untill, utnil, unitl, untli.
Choose the word that means up to a time.
until is often misspelled because one l. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
vacuum
Common misspellings: vaccum, vacume, vauum, vcauum.
Choose the word that means empty space or cleaner.
vacuum is often misspelled because one c, double u. The mistake usually comes from silent letters, doubled consonants, or a familiar spelling rule being applied in the wrong place.
Why these words are easy to misspell
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