Lists of Frequently Misspelled Words

A list of easily Confused/Mispronounced Words

Easily Confused Words
 

Accept/except
Advice/advise
Affect/effect
All ready/already
All together/altogether
Allusion/illusion
Ally/alley
Aloud/allowed
Altar/alter
Analysis/analyze
Ascent/assent
Assistance/assistants
Board/bored
Breath/breathe
Bridal/bridle
Capital/capitol
Censor/censure
Hear/here
Heard/herd
Idol/idle
Incidence/incidents
Its/it’s
Know/no
Later/latter
Lead/led
Lessen/lesson
Lightning/lightening
Loan/lone
Loose/lose
Maybe/may be
Moral/morale
Muscle/mussel
Naval/navel
Paid/payed
Passed/past
Peace/piece
Personal/personnel
Presence/presents
Principal/principle
 

choose/chose
cite/site/sight
cloths/clothes
coarse/course
complement/compliment
conscience/conscious
council/counsel
currant/current
dairy/diary
descent/dissent
device/devise
die/dye
ensure/insure
envelop/envelope
formally/formerly
forth/fourth
foul/fowl
prophecy/prophesy
quiet/quit/quite
right/write
road/rode
sail/sale
shone/shown
stationary/stationery
statue/stature
straight/strait
than/then
their/there/they’re
through/threw
to/too/two
vain/vein
waist/waste
wait/weight
weather/whether
were/we’re/where
which/witch
who’s/whose
your/you’re
 

                   
                    Frequently Mispronounced Words
 

Correct Spelling
accidentally
athlete
barbarous
disastrous
February
mathematics
miniature
mischievous
monstrous
parliamentary
probably
sophomore
temperature
 

Mispronounciation
"accidently"
"athelete"
"barbarious"
"disasterous"
"Febuary"
"mathmatics"
"minature"
"mischievious"
"monsterous"
"parlimentry"
"probly"
"sophmore"
"temperture"
 

Words with s, ss, c, and sc
 

absence
accessible
adolescent
associate
conscience
conscious
decision
descend
discussion
ecstasy
embarrass
expense
fascinate
insistent
license
mischievous
muscle
necessary
nuisance
 

ascend
assassinate
assistance
occasion
permissible
persistence
physical
possession
reminisce
resistance
scarcity
sincerely
source
succeed
succession
suspicious
unconscious
unnecessary
vicious
 

                   

Words with -able or -ible
 

acceptable
admissible
advisable
believable
changeable
collapsible
comfortable
compatible
credible
dependable
edible
eligible
flammable
flexible
gullible
impossible
 

incredible
irresistible
irritable
likeable
movable
noticeable
peaceable
permissible
possible
probable
profitable
resistible
responsible
separable
visible
 

                   
                   
                   

Words with -ence or -ance

abhorrence
abundance
Acquaintance
Appearance
Appliance
Assistance
Attendance
Conference
Deference
Defiance
Magnificence
Maintenance
Nuisance
Occurrence
Patience
Permanence
Persistence
Preference
Prevalence
 

dependence
difference
endurance
existence
guidance
independence
inference
insistence
intelligence
interference
prominence
providence
reference
resemblance
significance
surveillance
temperance
tolerance
vengeance