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User:Fogster/Common Misspellings

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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

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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

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These are words that may signal WP:NPOV problems, or otherwise are likely to not belong.

  • huge
  • best
  • us, we

Less Common

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  • concetrating ("concentrating")
  • annonomysly ("anonymously")

British v. American

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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