Most commonly misspelled words, even for native speaker.

The Daily Post

Courtesy, as pretty much always, of Bryan A. Garner, here’s a list of 25 of the most commonly misspelled words in the English language.

• accommodate
• committee
• consensus
• definitely
• embarrass
• expedite
• grammar
• harass
• hors d’oeuvre
• innovate
• inoculate
• lieu
• millennium
• minuscule
• misspelling
• noticeable
• occurrence
• pavilion
• persevere
• playwright
• receive
• restaurateur
• separate
• supersede
• ukulele

Commit these to memory, and should you ever find yourself needing to accommodate a ukulele player who wishes to receive an inoculation from a playwright while persevering at his art in a pavilion, you’ll be spared the embarrassment of making any innovative misspellings, whether minuscule or easily noticeable.

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