I’ve been seeing a lot of freakin’ misspellings lately, so I’m going to share this list with you for fun! And, for your own education if you’re not the best speller!
| acceptable | accidentally | accommodate |
| acquire | acquit | a lot |
| amateur | apparent | argument |
| atheist | believe | bellwether |
| calendar | category | cemetery |
| changeable | collectible | column |
| committed | conscience | conscientious |
| conscious | consensus | daiquiri |
| definite (ly) | discipline | drunkenness |
| dumbbell | embarrass (ment) | equipment |
| exhilarate | exceed | existence |
| experience | fiery | foreign |
| gauge | grateful | guarantee |
| harass | height | hierarchy |
| humorous | ignorance | immediate |
| independent | indispensable | inoculate |
| intelligence | its/it’s | jewelry |
| judgment | kernel (colonel) | leisure |
| liaison | library | license |
| lightning | maintenance | maneuver |
| medieval | memento | millennium |
| miniature | minuscule | mischievous |
| misspell | neighbor | noticeable |
| occasionally | occurrence | pastime |
| perseverance | personnel | playwright |
| possession | precede | principal/principle |
| privilege | pronunciation | publicly |
| questionnaire | receive/receipt | recommend |
| referred | reference | relevant |
| restaurant | rhyme | rhythm |
| schedule | separate | sergeant |
| supersede | their/they’re/there | threshold |
| twelfth | tyranny | until |
| vacuum | WXYZ | weather |
| weird |
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Hi,
One of the most common mistakes is using “then” instead of “than”.
I have the tendency to write “abble” instead of “able”, but then again I'm portuguese, so I have an excuse.
What about aesthetics / esthetics, I would guess it was included.
Kynd reegards,
José 🙂