Commonly misspelled English words (UK: misspelt words) are words that are often unintentionally misspelled in general writing. A selected list of common...
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Spelling (redirect from Misspelled)
While some words admit multiple spellings, some spellings are not considered standard. These are commonly called "misspellings". A misspelled word can be...
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This is a list of English words that are thought to be commonly misused. It is meant to include only words whose misuse is deprecated by most usage writers...
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on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2014. "What are some commonly misspelled English words?". National Library Board, Singapore. 18 April 2008. Archived...
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examples of confusion with English, such as connection (incorrect) and connexion (correct). Misspellings of French words outside the French language...
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of the German spelling reform of 1996. Misspelling in German is less common than in English since most words are spelled as they are pronounced. Exceptions...
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of these words are commonly encountered in New Zealand English, and several (such as kiwi) are widely used across other varieties of English, and in other...
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Singapore (category Use Singapore English from June 2022)
some commonly misspelled English words?|ASK!ASK!". Archived from the original on 3 March 2012. "What are some commonly misspelled English words?". Singapore:...
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due to the large number of words that have been loaned from a large number of other languages throughout the history of English, without successful attempts...
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than French, and English speakers commonly use them without any awareness of their French origin. This article covers French words and phrases that have...
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Languages of Singapore (category Use Singapore English from February 2023)
on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 27 January 2011. What are some commonly misspelled English words?|ASK!ASK! Archived 3 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Tan...
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suggest correct alternatives for misspelled English words. Due to the inability of traditional spell checkers to check words in complex inflected languages...
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entered mainstream English, such as abaca and ylang-ylang. Here are some examples of words that are unique to Philippine English: Abaca — The Manila...
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English, a common haplographical mistake is the rendering of consecutive letters between morphemes as a single letter. Many commonly misspelled words...
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Silent letter (redirect from Explanations for silent letters in English)
needed] it may present difficulty to writers (e.g., accommodate is often misspelled), but not to readers. Many vowel digraphs, as ⟨ea⟩, ⟨ie⟩, ⟨eu⟩ in leave...
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transcribed /ˈnəʊtᵻd/. The final vowel of words like happy and coffee is an unstressed front close unrounded vowel most commonly represented with [i], although some...
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OK (category American English words)
for a more Southern origin for the word note the tendency of English to adopt loan words in language contact situations, as well as the ubiquity of the...
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The Elements of Style (redirect from Omit needless words)
few matters of form," a list of 49 "words and expressions commonly misused," and a list of 57 "words often misspelled." Writer and editor E. B. White greatly...
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preferred or more common usage is generally listed first, though for some words the usage is nearly equal for the two choices. Sometimes the usage depends...
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and not followed by another vowel. For example, a rhotic English speaker pronounces the words hard and butter as /ˈhɑːrd/ and /ˈbʌtər/, but a non-rhotic...
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Homonym (category Types of words)
spellings and vastly different meanings. These three words are commonly misused (or, alternatively, misspelled). there – "The bow shot the arrow there," he said...
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suggest plausible replacements for words that are likely to have been misspelled. Spelling suggestion features are commonly included in Internet search engines...
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results for the hashtagged word (and for the standard spelling of commonly misspelled words). In 2010, Twitter introduced "Trending Topics" on the Twitter...
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Leet (redirect from English Leet)
options. Added words and misspellings add to the speaker's enjoyment. Leet, like hacker slang, employs analogy in construction of new words. For example...
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Endonym and exonym (redirect from English endonyms)
unanalysed) or because there are competing non-standard spellings. Use of a misspelled endonym is perhaps more problematic than the respectful use of an existing...
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Moby Project (redirect from Moby Words II)
contaminated: for example, the Japanese list contains English words such as abnormal and non-words such as abcdefgh and m,./. There are also unusual peculiarities...
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Backronym (category Types of words)
urban legend. Acronyms were rare in the English language before the 1930s, and most etymologies of common words or phrases that suggest origin from an...
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(1656–1740) French artist "bouy" is a common misspelling in English, see commonly misspelled English words Search for "bouy" on Wikipedia. All pages with...
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Toe the line (category English-language idioms)
alludes to it being a term used in horse racing. "Toe the line" is often misspelled "tow the line", substituting a familiar verb "tow" for the unfamiliar...
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of approximately 99% for English words, non-English words familiar to Americans, and first names and family names commonly found in the United States...
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