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Commonly Misspelled English Words
This page is part of a publication called Number One ESL Discussion Book & Reference Guide.
| absence | hypocrisy | potatoes |
| accidentally | immediately | principle |
| accommodation | indict | privilege |
| acknowledgment | indispensable | professor |
| acquaintance | ingenious | pronunciation |
| acquire | inoculate | protester |
| aggressive | jewelry/jewellery (UK) | publicly |
| anesthesia | judgment | quarantine |
| apparent | legitimate | questionnaire |
| bureau | leisure | receipt |
| calendar | liaison | referred |
| Caribbean | license* | relevant |
| cemetery | liquefy | religious |
| cognac | liqueur | rhyme |
| colleague | liquor | rhythm |
| committed | maintenance | secretary |
| complement | medieval | separate |
| conscience | Mediterranean | sergeant |
| conscientious | millennium | silhouette |
| conscious | millionaire | similar |
| consensus | miniature | speech |
| definitely | minuscule | successful |
| desperate | mischievous | supersede |
| disappear | misspell | surprise |
| disappoint | nauseous | tomatoes |
| embarrassment | necessarily | tomorrow |
| emphasis | necessary | twelfth |
| emphasize | negligent | tyranny |
| entrepreneur | noticeable | underrate |
| exaggerate | occasion | until |
| exhilarate | occurrence | vacuum |
| fascinating | original | vehicle |
| fluorescent | parallel | vicious |
| gauge | parliament | volcano |
| grateful | pastime | weird |
| harass | perseverance | welfare |
| hierarchy | personnel | whether |
| humorous | playwright | withhold |
| hygiene | possession | xylophone |
* In British English, “licence” is a noun, and “license” is a verb.
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