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THE TOP 300 + MISSPELLED WORDS - List of Most Common Misspelled Words A: Awkward, absence, accept, accidentally, accommodate, accommodation, achieved, acknowledge, acquainted, across, address, addresses, aerial, aggravate, all right, amateur, among, analysis, Antarctic, anxiety, apologise, apparent, appearance, appropriate, argument, arrangements, ascent, athletic, autumn, awful. B: Bachelor, beautiful, beginning, behaviour (US spelling behavior), being, believed, benefited, bicycle, breathe, Britain, brochure, business. C: Captain, cause, causing, ceiling, cemetery, certain, character, choice, clothes, college, coming, commitment, committed, committee, comparative, comparatively, competent, completely, conscience, conscientious, conscious, consistent, convenience, coordination, co-operation, copies, course, courteous, courtesy, criticism. D: Deceive, decision, definite, desirable, desperate, desperately, different, disappeared, disappointment, disappointed, disastrous, disciplinary, discipline, dissatisfied. E: Efficiency, eighth, eliminated, embarrass, embarrassed, embarrassing, emphasis, emphasise, (US spelling emphasize) enthusiasm, environment, equipped, essential, etc, exaggerate, exaggerated, excellent, exercise, exhausted, existence, expense, experience, extremely. F: Failure, faithful, faithfully, familiar, favourite (US: favorite) February, financial, foreign, formerly, forty, friend, fulfil. G: Gauge, genius, government, grammar, gramophone, grateful, grievance, guarantee, guard, guardian. H: Handkerchief, height, heroes, honorary, humorous, hurriedly, hygiene, hypocrisy. I: Imagination, immediate, immediately, immigrate, incidentally, independent, indispensable, influential, intelligence, interested, interrupt, irresistible, island. J: Journey K: Knife, knives, knowledge L: Language, length, library, lightning, literature, livelihood, lonely, loneliness, lose, loose, losing, lying. M: Magnificent, maintenance, marriage, marvellous, (US: marvellous) meant, measurements, medicine, Mediterranean, miniature, minutes, miscellaneous, mischievous, mystery, murmur. N: Nave, naturally, necessary, necessity, neighbours, (US: neighbors), neither, niece, noticeable, nuisance.

O: Obedient, occasion, occasional, occasionally, occur, occurred, occurrence, often, omitted, opinion, opportunity, ordinary, original, originally. P: Parallel, paralysis, parliament, particular, pastime, patience, peculiar, perceive, permanent, permissible, permission, perseverance, personnel, persuade, physical, picture, planning, pleasant, popular, possess, possesses, possession, preceding, preference, prejudice, preparation, presence, privilege, procedure, proceeds, professional, professor, pronunciation, propriety, psychology, pursue. Q: Quarrel, queue, queuing, quiet. R: Realise (US: realize), really, receipt, received, recognised (US: recognized), recommend, recommended, referred, regularly, relevant, relieved, repetition, resemblance, responsibility, restaurant, rhyme, rhythm, ridiculous. S: Safety, scarcely, school, science, secretary, secretaries, seize, sentence, separate, sergeant, series, serious, severely, similar, similarly, similarity, sincerely, skilful, soldier, speech, straight, strength, subtle, succeed, successful, supersede, suppression, surprise, surprising, synonym. T: Taught, targeted, technique, temperature, temporary, tendency, theatre, though, thorough, tomorrow, tragedy, transferred. Twelfth. U: Unconscious, unnecessary, until, usually. V: Valuable, various, view. W: Weigh, Wednesday, welcome, welfare, width, written, woollen (US:woollen). Y: Youre The commonest errors are: Its, occurred, received, humorous, privilege, separate, too, their

The following are both correct, and are commonly used: Focused / focussed Inquire / Enquire First Fifty Across All right Amount Beginning Believed Coming Definite Description Different Disappointed Divided Doesnt Finally Forty Second Fifty Accommodate Advice Always Appearance Athletic Before Benefited Business Chosen Comparative Competition Control Decided Desirable Help me fill the next 50 by responding below

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The Top 20 misspelled words are:

1. Definitely 2. Sacrilegious 3. Indict 4. Maneuver 5. Bureaucracy 6. Broccoli 7. Phlegm 8. Prejudice 9. Consensus 10. Unnecessary 11. Supersede 12. Questionnaire 13. Lieutenant 14. Entrepreneur 15. Connoisseur

16. Inoculate 17. Particularly 18. Liquefy 19. Parallel 20. Conscience