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100 Most Often Misspelled Words

Spelling mistakes are commonly at the top of people’s pet peeve list. If you want to stay on your professor’s good side consider copying this list and keeping it by your side if spelling isn’t your best friend.

Here is a list of 100 more often misspelled words. Isn’t it a good thing we have spell check?!

  1. Accessible
  2. Accommodate
  3. Accumulate
  4. Acquaintance
  5. Acquire
  6. Acquitted
  7. Alleged
  8. Ascend
  9. Auxiliary
  10. Benefited
  11. Bureau
  12. Collectible
  13. Commission
  14. Committee
  15. Concede
  16. Condescend
  17. Conscience
  18. Conscientious
  19. Defendant
  20. Descend
  21. Drunkenness
  22. Eligible
  23. Embarrass
  24. Exaggerate
  25. Exceed
  26. Environment
  27. Exhaust
  28. Exuberance
  29. Facsimile
  30. Fallacious
  31. Fluorescent
  32. Forcibly
  33. Foreign
  34. Forfeit
  35. Fueling
  36. Fulfill
  37. Gauge
  38. Grammar
  39. Grievous
  40. Guarantee
  41. Harass
  42. Heinous
  43. Hindrance
  44. Hypocrisy
  45. Hypocrite
  46. Idiosyncrasy
  47. Implement
  48. Indicted
  49. Indispensable
  50. Interrupt
  51. Irrelevant
  52. Irresistible
  53. Jealousy
  54. Judicial
  55. Knowledge
  56. Leisure
  57. Lieutenant
  58. Lightning
  59. Likelihood
  60. Loneliness
  61. Loose
  62. Lose
  63. Maintenance
  64. Manageable
  65. Maneuver
  66. Mathematics
  67. Miniature
  68. Minuscule
  69. Miscellaneous
  70. Mischievous
  71. Misspelled
  72. Noticeable
  73. Nuisance
  74. Occasion
  75. Occasionally
  76. Oppression
  77. Overrun
  78. Parallel
  79. Permissible
  80. Perseverance
  81. Persistence
  82. Possess
  83. Precedence
  84. Preferred
  85. Privilege
  86. Questionnaire
  87. Recede
  88. Recommend
  89. Reminiscence
  90. Sacrilegious
  91. Seize
  92. Separate
  93. Supersede
  94. Suppress
  95. Temperament
  96. Transferring
  97. Unanimous
  98. Undoubtedly
  99. Vacuum
  100. Weird

*reference: National Seminars Group, A Division of Rockhurst University Continuing Education Center, Inc.

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