February 11
2015
Rules Of Grammar: The Top 20 Misspelled Words
According to Oxford English Corpus, the following are the top 20 misspelled words:
1) accommodate (two c’s)
2) accommodation (two m’s)
3) achieve (i before e)
4) across (one c)
5) aggressive, aggression (two g’s)
6) apparently (-ent not -ant)
7) argument (no e after the u)
8) appearance (ends with -ance)
9) argument (no e after the u)
10) assassination (two double s’s)
11) basically (ends with -ally)
12) beginning (double n before the -ing)
13) believe (i before e)
14) bizarre (one z, double -r)
15) business (begins with busi-)
16) calendar (-ar not -er)
17) Caribbean (one r, two b’s)
18) cemetery (ends with -ery)
19) chauffeur (ends with -eur)
20) colleague (-ea- in the middle)