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We've asked our EnglishForward members to write down their most commonly misspelled words, and here are the top 55 in alphabetical order:
| Correct spelling | Common misspellings |
| ache | ake, ach, ace |
| accommodation | accomidation, accomadation, accomodation, acomodation, acommodation etc. |
| acquire | adquire, aquire |
| amateur | amatuer, amature |
| bizarre | bizare, bizzarre, bizzare |
| basically | basicly, basicaly |
| cemetery | cematry, cematary, cematery, cemitery, cementery etc. |
| chorus | corus, chours, chores, course |
| challenge | chalange, chalenge, challange |
| circumstance | cercomstance, sercomstance, circomstance |
| condemn | condem, condemm |
| conscientious | concientious |
| criticism | critisism |
| curiosity | curiousity |
| definitely | definately, definetly, definitly |
| destroy | destoy, destory |
| diarrhea | diarea, diahrea, diareah, diarreah |
| disappointed | disapointed, dissapointed, dissappointed |
| embarrass | embaras, embarass, embarras, embbarass etc. |
| emphasize (emphasise BrE) | empahsize |
| entrepreneur | entrepeneur, enterpreneur |
| exaggerate | exagerate, exagerrate |
| exam | exem |
| exception | exeption |
| exercise | excercise |
| grammar | grammer, gramer, gramar, gramor |
| grateful | greatful, greatefull, gratefull |
| greatly | grately |
| immediately | immediatly, imediatly, immedietly, imediately |
| knife | knive |
| laugh | lagh |
| legitimate | legitamate |
| luxurious | luxourious |
| maneuver | manuever, manouver |
| miscellaneous | miscelaneous, miscellanious, miscellanous |
| misspell | mispell, misspel |
| necessary | neccesary, necesary, neccessary |
| noticeable | noticible, noticable |
| occurrence | occurance, ocurrence, ocurrance, occurrence, occurrence |
| onomatopoeia | onomatopoeia, onomatopea, onomatopoea etc. |
| opaque | opeque, opaique |
| physique | pysique |
| pneumatic | pneumatik, pneumetic, pnumatic |
| privilege | privelege, priviledge, privledge, privilage, privelige |
| psychology | sychology, psycology |
| realize (realise BrE) | relize, relise |
| recommend | recomend, reccomend, reccommend |
| receive | recieve |
| rhythm | rhythem, rythim, rythem, rhythm, rhythim |
| separate | seperate |
| subpoena | sepina, supena |
| synonymous | synonimous, synonomous |
| temporarily | temperarily |
| weird | wierd |
| Wednesday | Wendsay, Wensday |
| ventriloquy | ventriloqy |
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