Most common misspelled words on this discussion forum...

[Mike Phillips]

Hi everyone,

Just for fun, here's a thread with some of the most common misspelled words used on a daily basis on this forum and every forum, maybe this will help, but remember it's just for fun...

One of the most common misspelled words we see is this one, alot

It's actually supposed to be spelled as two words, for example: a lot

If you use the words a lot often in your writing, (Or a lot in your writing), now you can be confident as to how to correctly spell the words.

Another one funny enough is Meguiar's! Can't even think of how may ways we've seen this one spelled over the years.

[CharlesW]

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Is it possible that the word "mispelled" in the title of this thread is misspelled?

One that is somewhat similar to the "alot" misspelling is "noone". another case where it should be two words. The fact that we tend to pronounce a lot and no one as one word probably contributes to the misspelling of them.

[gorin002]

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the problem is i never learn english on school
i went to the U.S so mi pronounce is better than i write
am happy mike made this subject i am not only one hoerah hoerah hoerah

[TH0001]

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"mi pronouce"

mY pronunciation

[gorin002]

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"mi pronouce"

mY pronunciation

ehh yes

[Lydia]

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Actually, I think the correct spelling IS mispelled. I can't remember for sure though.

Yeah "no one" is commonly mispelled. I always think the person is saying "noon" when I see it spelled that way.

Another one I see a lot is usualy. Of course "their", "there", and "they're" seem to be used improperly often. Same for "right" and "write".

[Mike Phillips]

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Is it possible that the word "mispelled" in the title of this thread is misspelled?

Whoops! We posted this and then sped out the door to get to the post office before the lunch crowd sent the line around the block! For some reason, spell check doesn't always check the Subject Title?

It's fixed now!

One that is somewhat similar to the "alot" misspelling is "noone". another case where it should be two words. The fact that we tend to pronounce a lot and no one as one word probably contributes to the misspelling of them.

Here's another one this write misspells all the time,

everytime

It's two words, not one word, as in every time we type the words every time we always type them as one word and then correct the mistake when we run spell check.


Of course there's always, to too and two and your and you're and their, there and they're

[Mike Phillips]

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Actually, I think the correct spelling IS mispelled. I can't remember for sure though.

Yeah "no one" is commonly mispelled. I always think the person is saying "noon" when I see it spelled that way.

Another one I see a lot is usualy. Of course "their", "there", and "they're" seem to be used improperly often. Same for "right" and "write".

Whenever we're not sure, the fastest thing to do is to type the word into Google and see what it does, in this case we typed in the word mispelled and it corrected us with misspelled.

One of the top links after clicking on the corrected version was this one,


Your Dictionary

100 MOST OFTEN MISPELLED MISSPELLED WORDS IN ENGLISH

[Michael Stoops]

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The most commonly misused word I see is "loose" when the person actually means "lose". "Loose" is the opposite of tight, "Lose" is the opposite of win.

I've never seen anyone actually loose a race, or loose the shine off their paint because they didn't wax it. I have seen them lose both, however.

[gb387]

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Quik - should be Quick, oh wait.... never mind.

[the other pc]

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the problem is i never learn english on school
i went to the U.S so mi pronounce is better than i write…

Your English is a whole lot better than my Dutch. I don’t care if your spelling or grammar aren’t perfect. I’m just happy that guys like you are willing to join in. It’s got to be difficult. Thanks for putting in the effort.

…One that is somewhat similar to the "alot" misspelling is "noone". ….

Naw, that’s spelled right. You just need to capitalize it. He’s that guy from Herman’s Hermits. ...Mrs. Brown, you’ve got a lovely daughter….


PC.

[Lydia]

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Lol. I would have spell checked misspell, but I was at work and loading pages on a 28.8 kb connection is a drag.

Another common one is "congradulations" (congratulations).

How about "purusal" (perusal)? Ok, ok, I've only seen that misspelled once, and that was by Mike. I just thought it was kind of funny.

[Bence]

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My far too common examples would be:

your - instead of you are/you're (in this context, of course)
caranuba/carnuba - instead of carnauba
definately - definitely
rotory - rotary
sealent - sealant
plasticy - plasticky
there - their/they're/they are (again in this context)
burgandy - burgundy
cinimon - cinnamon
door jams - door jambs
dissapointed - disappointed

etc., etc.

...and the Meg's versions are always funny: Mequires, Meguires, Mequairs, Maguires, MacGuires...

Other brands too, are challenging for certain people (entertaining for us ), but I'm not sure we could mention them here.

[SVT Lightning]

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Looks like my post (I'm guessing it was off topic) and a couple others were removed. My apologies if I violated the forum rules. Just havin' some fun

[Mike Phillips]

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Looks like my post (I'm guessing it was off topic) and a couple others were removed. My apologies if I violated the forum rules. Just havin' some fun

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