Monday, May 20, 2013

100 Most Misspelled Words

Something to study this summer (even the grown-ups). 
With so much texting going on, people are forgetting how to spell.  
2nite, 2moro, sk8, c u L8r, 4got 2, b, n, otw, thx,
these are only a few and they are crazy words. 

Compiled by yourdictionary.com.
  1. acceptable
  2. accidentally
  3. accommodate
  4. acquire
  5. allot
  6. amateur
  7. apparent
  8. argument
  9. atheist
  10. believe
  11. bellwether
  12. calendar
  13. cemetery
  14. changeable
  15. collectible
  16. column
  17. committed
  18. conscience
  19. conscientious
  20. conscious
  21. consensus
  22. daiquiri
  23. definite
  24. discipline
  25. drunkenness
  26. dumbbell
  27. embarrass
  28. equipment
  29. exhilarate
  30. exceed
  31. existence
  32. experience
  33. fiery
  34. foreign
  35. gauge
  36. grateful
  37. guarantee
  38. harass
  39. height
  40. hierarchy
  41. humorous
  42. ignorance
  43. immediate
  44. independent
  45. indispensable
  46. inoculate
  47. intelligence
  48. its (possessive)
  49. jewelry
  50. judgment
  51. kernel
  52. leisure
  53. liaison
  54. library
  55. license
  56. lightning
  57. maintenance
  58. maneuver
  59. medieval
  60. memento
  61. millennium
  62. miniature
  63. minuscule
  64. mischievous
  65. misspell
  66. neighbor
  67. noticeable
  68. occasionally
  69. occurrence
  70. pastime
  71. perseverance
  72. personnel
  73. playwright
  74. possession
  75. precede
  76. principal – head; as a school principal
  77. principle – a rule
  78. privilege
  79. pronunciation
  80. publicly
  81. questionnaire
  82. receive
  83. recommend
  84. refer
  85. relevant
  86. restaurant
  87. rhyme
  88. rhythm
  89. schedule
  90. separate
  91. sergeant
  92. supersede
  93. their
  94. threshold
  95. twelfth
  96. tyranny
  97. until
  98. vacuum
  99. weather
  100. weird
Here is a good website that has hints to help you remember how to spell them.
 

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