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This is a list of common misspellings

They are used on this maintenance page. Note that not all of them will be misspellings: if they are in song titles, for instance, they must be left how the author intended; if they are in transliterations such as Tao Teh Ching, then they may be correct also.

  • absense
  • acceptible
  • accessable
  • accidently
  • accomadate
  • accomadated
  • accomadates
  • accomadation
  • accomadating
  • accomodate
  • accomodated
  • accomodates
  • accomodating
  • accomodation
  • accompanyed
  • accross
  • acheive
  • acheived
  • acheives
  • acheiving
  • acheivement
  • achievment
  • acomplish
  • acquiantence
  • acquited
  • actualy
  • acuracy
  • admendment
  • addmission
  • adolecent
  • adress
  • adviced
  • agian
  • agina
  • agravate
  • agression
  • agressive
  • ahev
  • ahppen
  • ahve
  • alegience
  • allegience
  • almsot
  • alomst
  • alot
  • alotted
  • alreayd
  • alusion
  • alwasy
  • alwyas
  • amature
  • amke
  • amking
  • ammend
  • amendmant
  • ammendment
  • anbd
  • anual
  • anytying
  • aquiantance
  • aquire
  • aquitted
  • arangement
  • arguement
  • artical
  • articel
  • assasin
  • assasinate
  • assasinated
  • assasinates
  • assasination
  • assitant
  • athat
  • attaindre
  • audeince
  • awya
  • bakc
  • baout
  • bcak
  • beacuse
  • becasue
  • becuase
  • befoer
  • begining
  • beleif
  • beleive
  • beleived
  • beleives
  • beleiving
  • bera
  • boaut
  • busness
  • casion
  • catterpilar
  • catterpilars
  • censur
  • ceratin
  • chasr
  • cheif
  • claer
  • claerer
  • claerly
  • clera
  • comander
  • comittee
  • comming
  • commitee
  • comitted
  • communciation
  • comprimise
  • constatn
  • congresional
  • constuction
  • copywrite
  • coudl
  • coudln
  • cpoy
  • cxan
  • dael
  • decendents
  • definit
  • definately
  • definatly
  • definitly
  • deram
  • deside
  • dessicated
  • devide
  • diea
  • disolved
  • divison
  • divisons
  • doens
  • doign
  • donig
  • dominiant
  • dreasm
  • drnik
  • dyas
  • efel
  • eles
  • embarras
  • embarrased
  • embarrasing
  • embarrasment
  • embarass
  • embarassed
  • embarassing
  • embarassment
  • ened
  • enxt
  • equiped
  • equippment
  • erally
  • esle
  • esential
  • essesital
  • ethose
  • eveyr
  • exagerate
  • exagerated
  • exagerates
  • exagerating
  • existance
  • eyar
  • eyars
  • eyasr
  • febuary
  • feromone
  • fianlly
  • fidn
  • fiel
  • fiels
  • financialy
  • firends
  • firts
  • fomr
  • forfiet
  • forhead
  • foriegn
  • foudn
  • fourty
  • freind
  • frist
  • fulfilment
  • guage
  • generaly
  • gerat
  • jin
  • godo
  • gogin
  • gonig
  • goign
  • gouvener
  • governer
  • goverment
  • graet
  • grafitti
  • grammaticaly
  • grammer
  • grat
  • greif
  • grwo
  • gaurd
  • garanteed
  • guranteed
  • guidence
  • habaeus
  • habeus
  • hace
  • haev
  • hapened
  • harasment
  • harras
  • harrasing
  • harrased
  • harrases
  • harrasment
  • harrassing
  • harrassed
  • harrasses
  • harrassment
  • headquater
  • headquatered
  • headquaters
  • herad
  • heroe
  • heros
  • hieght
  • hismelf
  • housr
  • hten
  • htere
  • htey
  • hting
  • htikn
  • htink
  • htis
  • humer
  • hvae
  • hvea
  • hvaing
  • hwihc
  • hwile
  • hwole
  • hypocracy
  • hypocrasy
  • hypocrit
  • idae
  • idaes
  • idesa
  • ilogical
  • imagenary
  • imagin
  • imediately
  • imense
  • immitate
  • incidently
  • increadible
  • incredable
  • indefinitly
  • independance
  • independant
  • indispensible
  • indite
  • inevatible
  • inevitible
  • infinit
  • inocence
  • inpeach
  • intelectual
  • inteligence
  • inteligent
  • interpet
  • interupt
  • intrest
  • irelevent
  • iresistable
  • iresistible
  • iritable
  • iritated
  • irresistable
  • inot
  • iwll
  • iwth
  • jeapardy
  • jstu
  • jsut
  • judical
  • judisuary
  • knowlege
  • konw
  • konws
  • knwo
  • knwos
  • kwno
  • labatory
  • labratory
  • lavae
  • leanr
  • legitamate
  • leran
  • lerans
  • levle
  • liason
  • libary
  • lible
  • lief
  • lieing
  • liek
  • liekd
  • liesure
  • litature
  • literture
  • littel
  • liuke
  • livley
  • loev
  • lonelyness
  • lonley
  • lonly
  • lsat
  • lveo
  • lvoe
  • maintainance
  • maintainence
  • maintenence
  • makse
  • manuever
  • mariage
  • marrage
  • mathamatics
  • mear
  • medacine
  • meranda
  • messanger
  • millenium
  • minature
  • mischeivous
  • mischevious
  • misile
  • misdameanors
  • missle
  • mkae
  • mkaes
  • mkaing
  • mkea
  • moent
  • moeny
  • moer
  • morgage
  • movei
  • mroe
  • muscels
  • mysef
  • mysterous
  • naturaly
  • naturely
  • naturually
  • naturual
  • neccessary
  • necesary
  • neice
  • nickle
  • nineth
  • ninteenth
  • ninty
  • nkow
  • nkwo
  • noone
  • noticable
  • noticeing
  • nuculear
  • nuisanse
  • nusance
  • obstacal
  • ocasionally
  • occassionally
  • occurance
  • occured
  • occurence
  • occuring
  • occurr
  • occurrance
  • ocurr
  • ocurrance
  • ocurred
  • ocurrence
  • offical
  • oging
  • omision
  • omited
  • omre
  • onot
  • onyl
  • oponent
  • oportunity
  • oposite
  • oppinion
  • optomism
  • orgin
  • orginal
  • orginize
  • otehr
  • owrk
  • owudl
  • paide
  • palce
  • pamplet
  • paralel
  • paralell
  • parrallel
  • pasttime
  • payed
  • peculure
  • peice
  • peom
  • peoms
  • peopel
  • peotry
  • performence
  • perhpas
  • perhasp
  • perjery
  • permissable
  • perphas
  • personel
  • petetion
  • planed
  • plesant
  • poisin
  • posess
  • posession
  • possable
  • possably
  • possesion
  • possibilty
  • practicaly
  • practicly
  • prairy
  • preample
  • preceed
  • prefered
  • prefering
  • prepair
  • prepartion
  • presense
  • prevelant
  • previvous
  • privelege
  • privelige
  • privilage
  • priviledge
  • privledge
  • probablly
  • probelm
  • procedger
  • proceedure
  • proclomation
  • profesion
  • profesor
  • proffesion
  • proffesor
  • prohabition
  • prominant
  • prophacy
  • propoganda
  • protem
  • psycology
  • psyhic
  • publically
  • pumkin
  • pursuade
  • pwoer
  • pyschic
  • qtuie
  • quantaty
  • quizes
  • qutie
  • radify
  • raelly
  • reacll
  • realy
  • realyl
  • reciept
  • recieve
  • recieved
  • recieves
  • recieving
  • recomend
  • recomended
  • recomending
  • recomends
  • recrod
  • rediculous
  • referal
  • refered
  • refering
  • referrence
  • regluar
  • rela
  • relaly
  • relativly
  • releive
  • relized
  • rememberance
  • repatition
  • representive
  • restraunt
  • rewriet
  • roomate
  • russina
  • rwite
  • rythm
  • rythem
  • sacrafice
  • saftey
  • salery
  • sargant
  • sasy
  • schedual
  • scirpt
  • scripot
  • seceed
  • secratary
  • secretery
  • senet
  • sensure
  • seperate
  • seperated
  • seperating
  • sepina
  • severley
  • sherif
  • shineing
  • shoudl
  • shoudln
  • sieze
  • simpley
  • sincerley
  • sinse
  • smae
  • smoe
  • snese
  • soem
  • sohw
  • soliders
  • sophmore
  • sotry
  • sotyr
  • soudn
  • soudns
  • sould
  • soulds
  • soverign
  • speach
  • sponser
  • stroy
  • stoyr
  • stopry
  • storeis
  • storise
  • stnad
  • stpo
  • strat
  • stradegies
  • stradegy
  • stubborness
  • succesion
  • successfull
  • suceed
  • suceeded
  • suceeding
  • suceeds
  • sucesion
  • sufferage
  • sumary
  • supercede
  • superintendant
  • supose
  • suposed
  • suposes
  • suposing
  • supress
  • surley
  • suround
  • surounded
  • surounding
  • suroundings
  • surounds
  • suseptible
  • swiming
  • syas
  • tahn
  • taht
  • tath
  • talek
  • talekd
  • tehy
  • temperment
  • temperture
  • tendancy
  • thgat
  • tghe
  • ther
  • theri
  • thge
  • thier
  • thign
  • thigns
  • thigsn
  • thikn
  • thikns
  • thikning
  • thiunk
  • thna
  • thne
  • thnig
  • thnigs
  • thrid
  • thsi
  • thsoe
  • thta
  • tiem
  • tih
  • tihkn
  • tihs
  • timne
  • tiome
  • tje
  • tjhe
  • tkae
  • tkaes
  • tkaing
  • tlaking
  • tobbaco
  • todya
  • tommorrow
  • tommorow
  • tongiht
  • towrad
  • trafficed
  • trafic
  • transfered
  • transfering
  • truely
  • turnk
  • twon
  • tyhat
  • tyhe
  • tyrany
  • tyrrany
  • unconcious
  • unecessary
  • univesities
  • univesity
  • unmistakeably
  • untill
  • useage
  • usefull
  • useing
  • usualy
  • vaccum
  • valuble
  • vegtable
  • venemous
  • vengance
  • veyr
  • vigilence
  • villin
  • visable
  • vrey
  • vyer
  • vyre
  • waht
  • warrent
  • watn
  • wehn
  • weild
  • wendsay
  • wensday
  • whcih
  • whereever
  • whic
  • whihc
  • wholy
  • whta
  • wief
  • wierd
  • wiht
  • wintery
  • wirting
  • withdrawl
  • wiull
  • wnat
  • wnats
  • wnated
  • wohle
  • wokr
  • woudl
  • wriet
  • wrok
  • wroking
  • wroet
  • wtih
  • yeild
  • ytou
  • yera
  • yeras
  • yersa
  • yeasr