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commonly misspelled words

    The following are the correct spellings of frequently misspelled words (with some common misspellings in parenthesis):

abscess
absence
abundance
accelerate
accidental
accidentally (accidently)
accommodate
accordion (accordian)
accumulate
acquaintance (acquaintence, aquaintance)
acquire (aquire)
acquit (aquit)
acquitted
adamant
admirable
adolescent
advertise
aficionado
agreeable
allege
a lot (alot)
all right
amateur
analyze
ancient
anoint
anonymous
annulled
antecedent
apology
appalling
appearance
arguable
argument (arguement)
arrival
assess
atheist
a while (awhile)
axle (axel)
bachelor
barbecue (barbeque)
battalion
believable (believeable)
believe
besiege
bookkeeper
brief
broccoli (brocolli)
caffeine
camouflage
cantaloupe
carburetor
Caribbean
cartilage
cemetery (cemetary)
chauvinism (chauvanism)
chili
chocolaty (chocolatey)
coliseum, also colosseum (colliseum)
collaborate
collectible (collectable)
colonel
colossal
commemorate
commitment
committee
compelled
complement
concede
conceited
concurred
congratulations
conscience
conscientious
conscious
consensus
contemptible
coolly
copyright
counterfeit
corroborate
criticize
daiquiri
Dalmatian (Dalmation)
deceive
decisively
defendant
deficient
definite (definate)
demagogue
desiccate
desirable
desperate
deterrence
development (developement)
dilemma
diorama
disagree
disappear
disappoint
discernible
disheveled
dissimilar
dissipate
drunkenness (drunkeness)
dumbbell (dumbell)
dumbfound
ecstasy
eligible
embarrass
embarrassed
energy
enforceable
equipped
exceed
excise
exercise (excercise)
exhilarate
existence (existance)
facetious
feign
Fahrenheit
fierce
fiery (firey)
financier
flabbergast (flabberghast)
flotation (floatation)
foreign
forfeit
forty
frustum (frustrum)
gauge
genius (genious)
governor
grammar (grammer)
grievous
gross
gullible
guttural
handkerchief ( hankerchief)
harass (harrass)
have (of)
hemorrhage
heresy
hierarchy
horrific
hypocrisy
imitate
immediately
inadvertent (inadvertant)
incidentally (incidently)
incredible
independent
indispensable (indispensible)
inflexible
ingenious (ingenius)
innocuous
innuendo
inoculate ( innoculate)
insistence
irascible
irresistible (irresistable)
its (it’s)
judgment (judgement)
khaki
led (lead)
leisure
liaison
lieutenant
liquefy (liquify)
livable
loneliness
lose (loose)
manageable
maneuver, also manoeuvre
marshmallow (marshmellow)
medieval, also mediaeval
memento (momento)
merchandise
millennium (millenium)
minimize
minuscule (miniscule)
miscellaneous
mischief (mischeif)
mischievous (mischievious)
misogyny
missile
misspell (mispell)
misspelling
misstate
movable
nauseous
necessary
negligible
newsstand
no one (noone)
numskull
obscene
obsession
occasion
occasional
occurred
occurrence
octopus
omitted
omniscient
onomatopoeia
oppressive
orator
parallel
parliament
passable
pastime (pasttime)
peninsula
perceive
pharaoh (pharoah)
pigeon (pidgeon)
pistachio (pistacchio)
plagiarize
plausible
playwright
plenitude (plentitude)
poinsettia (pointsettia)
precede
preference
preferred
presumptuous (presumptious)
privilege (priviledge)
proceed
profited
prohibited
pronunciation (pronounciation)
propagate
puerile
pursue (persue)
putrefy
questionnaire (questionaire)
quizzed
quotient
rarefy
raspberry
receipt
receive
recommend
referred
refrigerator (refridgerator)
reign
relevance
relief
renowned
repetition
repressible
resuscitate
retained
revise
rhythm
ridiculous
sacrilegious
sandal
satellite
savvy
secession
seize (sieze)
seizure
sensible (sensable)
sensitive
separate
septuagenarian (septagenarian)
sergeant
sheriff
shield
shish kebab
shriek
siege
sieve
similar
simile
sincerely
skepticism
sorcerer (sorceror)
sovereign
specify
stationery
subpoena
succumb
suddenness
sufficient
superintendent
supersede (supercede)
suppress
surprise
susceptible
sustenance
synagogue
tariff
their
there
they’re
thoroughly
threshold
to (too, two)
tobacco
tongue
too (to, two)
traceable
tragedy
trespass
tyranny
two (to, too)
ukulele (ukelele)
unskillful
until (untill)
usable
vacancy
vacillate
vacuum
valuable
vicious
villain
weird
wholly
wield
withhold
worshiper
yield
your (you’re)
you’re (your)

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