User:Fogster/Common Misspellings
Note: This is a list of words that are misspelled with considerable frequency, such that it's likely to find some instances of the misspellings in Wikipedia. All are welcome to edit / add to this list. Please note that regional differences in spelling (color vs. colour) do not belong on this list.
Commonly Misspelled Words
[edit]Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings is much more comprehensive, but this is a list of truly common misspellings.
| Misspelling | Correct | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| accomodation | accommodation | |
| occassion | occasion | |
| hte | the | "HTE" is an oft-used acronym |
| teh | the | See teh |
| continously | continuously | |
| becasue | because | |
| fo | of or for | This one will be a pain to correct... |
| abreviation | abbreviation | |
| wiht | with | Could also be used to mean "whit" |
| competely | completely | (Missing letter) |
| bussiness | business | |
| activiate | activate | (Extra letter) |
| adminstrator | administrator | Missing "i" |
| suposely | supposedly | suposedly too... I'd also be vigilant for POV creeping in here... |
| midevial, mediaeval, medevial | medieval | And other variations |
| Budhism | Buddhism | (May be obscure) |
| jewlery | jewelry | |
| excist | exist | excistance / excistence too |
| fulfil | fulfill | |
| philospher | philosopher | |
| enterpirse | enterprise | I have corrected all occurrences (5/31/2008) |
| sentance | sentence | a/e switch |
Dubious Words
[edit]These are words that may signal WP:NPOV problems, or otherwise are likely to not belong.
- huge
- best
- us, we
Less Common
[edit]- concetrating ("concentrating")
- annonomysly ("anonymously")
British v. American
[edit]These are not errors, but rather, are listed specifically so they will not be "corrected" erroneously. This is list is made somewhat irrelevant by the page American and British English spelling differences.
| American | British | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| color | colour | |
| tries | trys | It's unclear to me whether this is actually an error or not |
| inquire | enquire | Both are semi-correct at least, but British English seems to favor "enquire" |
| learned | learnt |