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

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

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

• huge
• best
• us, we

Less Common

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

British v. American

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