Commonly Misspelled Words #1

These words are misspelled. See if you can guess the correct spellings.

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First submitted	July 6, 2011
Times taken	89,993
Average score	63.0%
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Incorrect	Correct
Athelete	Athlete
Hygenic	Hygienic
Paraphenalia	Paraphernalia
Occassionaly	Occasionally
Priviledge	Privilege
Catagory	Category
Sophmore	Sophomore
Absorbant	Absorbent
Pilgramage	Pilgrimage

Incorrect	Correct
Oddessy	Odyssey
Hallaluja	Hallelujah
Fourty	Forty
Indespensible	Indispensable
Yamaka	Yarmulke
Independant	Independent
Summersalt	Somersault
Camoflage	Camouflage
Bellweather	Bellwether

Incorrect	Correct
Celcius	Celsius
Labratory	Laboratory
Cemetary	Cemetery
Grammer	Grammar
Mischevious	Mischievous
Noticable	Noticeable
Perogative	Prerogative
Aquit	Acquit
Daqueri	Daiquiri

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Level 71

Jul 6, 2011

It's probably tougher after seeing an incorrect spelling rather than just hearing the word.

Level 50

Apr 29, 2014

Definitely!

+18

Level 67

Jun 9, 2014

Got most of them by having a lightning-fast look at the word - just enough to recognize the word without quite reading it or seeing the mispelling - then write that word from instinct without thinking about the spelling. Worked for 90% of the words.

Level 46

Dec 3, 2015

Yeah, I knew how to spell most everything already, but once I saw the misspelling, I got stuck on a few. Bah!

Level 63

Feb 12, 2016

I read the misspelling as fast as possible, then didn't look at it anymore and typed the word as I thought it.

Level 67

Jun 17, 2019

@travelfan that was my strategy to, but often my subconscious saw more than it should have..and picked up on stuff that I thought I hadnt seent.. (like writing celcius with a c... it is the frist time in my life that I wrote it like that and thought I wrote I like I allways do ( the right way) And thought huh what could be wrong...

Level 65

Jul 7, 2011

johnnyaitch is exactly right. I had to stop looking at the word and close my eyes to visualize it. Once you see it misspelled it completely throws you off. Great quiz!

Level 18

Feb 7, 2012

I didn't spell paraphernalia, indispensable, and prerogative. I can't believe I misspelled somersault...

Level 29

Feb 25, 2012

Seeing Hallelujah spelled hallaluja, i couldn't even figure out what the word was xD

Level 48

Oct 12, 2018

just thought of Leonard Cohen...lol

Level 14

Apr 30, 2012

I thought I would breeze through this. It's much harder than it looks.

Level 16

May 10, 2012

16/28 I'm so proud of myself. Considering I sing the Hallelujah Chorus every year in Choir, it's kind of shaming that I coultn't figure out how to spell it.

Level 5

Jun 4, 2012

wow. great quiz. loved it. u should make more lik it

Level 19

Jul 9, 2012

Really good fun - though I have no idea what yamuka (?) or bellwether might be.

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Level 75

Jun 6, 2014

I know bellwether because we raise sheep. A castrated male is called a wether, and they used to put a bell around the lead sheep's neck so they could hear where the herd was in the field. The term has come to mean anything that leads or trends, and is often heard in politics to describe a small area whose voting results often predict the outcome of the whole election. "The results are in from ___ County, which is a bellwether for predicting the winner."

Level 84

Jul 27, 2021

Usually, you learn from the quiz. But sometimes you learn from the comments. Thanks for this, ander217. Very interesting and informative.

Level 19

Jul 9, 2012

How about "accommodation"? Almost always misspelt as "accomodation" ?

Level 78

Dec 1, 2018

or accomadation

Level 67

Jun 17, 2019

nuclear... is the top one I think nuculair or whatever. Also seperate-separate, calender-calendar, definitely-definately. I think there are more that are very common but cant think of em atm.

The list is endless ofcourse. But if you want to do a sequel, these are the ones I ve seen most (by people of average or above intelligence that do not often make spelling errors, not the ones that do not know the difference between there their and they're)

In my language I think it would be (am)minutie instead of (am)munitie. (ammunition, maybe misspelled in english aswell, as ammonition?) and legimitatie instead of legitimatie.

I personally had a tough time with necessary/necessity and nauseous for a long time, so many options for variations.

Level 19

Jul 9, 2012

PS - loved the game!!

Level 30

Feb 27, 2018

Yes! Super Mario Odyssey hype! That game rocked! :)

Level 25

Aug 9, 2012

So close, the only one I didn't get was Yarmulke. Normally every quiz on this site has a bunch of idiots in the comment section harping on about how this or that misspelling should be accepted because they're too ignorant to learn the right way. Hopefully this shuts them up.

Level 33

Aug 26, 2019

Great coment! You're post was dead on.

Could we be best friend??

Level 26

Sep 5, 2012

18/24 ran out of time.

Level 42

Jun 3, 2015

Need more time please.

Level 71

May 21, 2013

Gah! I almost didn't get yarmulke because "yamaka" looks nothing like it. It sounds Japanese. :/ And segue I didn't get because I had no idea what it was, and since segway is a thing. And bellwether I had no idea what it was. :(

Level 72

Nov 11, 2013

I had no idea what Yamaka was supposed to mean? Yarmulke I know...

Level 37

Jul 3, 2019

I kept trying for the Japanese motorcycle company "Yamaha"..

Level 79

Oct 16, 2020

I thought it was a piano company.

Level 59

Jan 21, 2014

I'm sure I entered Hallelujah several times but it was not accepted. Was curious to know the answer

Level 80

Apr 24, 2014

Not very hard when chrome gives you an auto spell option. Al I had to do was type in the incorrect spelling of the word and it underlined it in red and gave me the correct spelling. Only missed 4 because of this. :)

Level 50

Apr 29, 2014

Yeah, but that's totally cheating! What's the point?

Level 74

May 28, 2014

Crikey! If I was using auto-correct and still missed 4 I'd keep that to myself, I reckon ;o)

Level 79

Oct 16, 2020

Congratulations! not

Level 46

Jun 7, 2014

I've never seen athlete misspelled that way. Do some people pronounce it with three syllables or something? I've never heard that.

Level 50

Aug 6, 2014

LOTS of people say "ath-a-leet", at least in the western US.

Level 14

Oct 2, 2014

gotta love auto correct

Level 65

Mar 24, 2015

O and did anywun noteice that ewe spelld the werd "spell" rong?

Level 51

Jul 1, 2015

It took me a bit to figure out what the heck "yamaka" was supposed to be. Once I figured it out what word it was supposed to be, I knew how to spell it. Missed a few others, though.

Level 80

Mar 11, 2016

I know how to spell 'yarmulke', but had no idea what word was being asked for. Should have an explanation for that one. Like:

Yamaka (Jewish hat).

Level 14

Mar 17, 2016

Speaking french kinda helps for words like "athlete", "hygienic", "privilege", "category" and a few others. We sure have our spelling failures too, but french pronounciation of these words tells us the answer.

Level 60

Feb 3, 2017

You misspelled pronunciation... ;)

Great English, though!

Level 76

Apr 12, 2016

This quiz doesn't seem to accept any type-ins.

Level 68

Aug 7, 2016

Heh heh

Level 69

Sep 23, 2016

All this time I've been thinking mischievous is spelled mischevious? My life's been a big lie.

Level 68

Nov 24, 2016

Took me a while to figure out what the heck Yamaka and Aquit were supposed to mean.

Level 51

Dec 10, 2016

Good quiz. Yamaka as a clue not the best choice if it represents another word/thing spelled correctly. 27/27

Level 65

Jan 22, 2017

Only missed "Bellwether", 'cos I've never heard of it!

Level 67

Jun 17, 2019

hadnt either, but figured it would be wether or whether.

Level 67

Jan 22, 2017

I had enough time left to try a few possibilities for yarmulke and daiquiri, but none of them stuck. Damn! >:-(

Level 82

Jan 22, 2017

you should add antarctica

Level 67

Jan 22, 2017

Foreign speaker, managed to get them all (although cemetery made me sweat a bunch) except Yamaka. For the life of me I had no idea what the right word was supposed to be. I had seen the word Yarmulke before and knew what it was, but I had no idea that the pronunciation could be similar and wouldn't have made the connection.

Level 53

Jan 23, 2017

It's kind of difficult to spell some of these words could you accept more alternate spellings?

Level 53

Jan 23, 2017

haha jk

Level 60

Jan 23, 2017

Got them all but I don't think yamaka/yarmulke is a very good clue. Like a lot of others, I got it by sounding it out, but the misspelling isn't very suggestive of what might be intended.

Level 28

Jan 24, 2017

I mean no offence when I say Yarmulke is something only Jews would get

Level 76

Mar 28, 2018

I'm not Jewish, and I got it right away.

Level 93

Feb 10, 2019

^^ you underestimate the awareness of Jewish culture in our world

Level 66

Sep 18, 2022

*in the USA

Whenever I watch US TV shows, there's so many Jewish references. It's not a bad thing (although sometimes the references are not too positive)

But there's not as much bearing on your religion in some other parts of the world as there is in the USA.

Level 28

Jan 25, 2017

Lol I just typed in the misspelled work and used auto correct to fix it

Level 69

Feb 5, 2017

Some ideas for the next part: donut instead of doughnut, honor instead of honour, fall instead of autumn... ;)

Level 67

Jun 17, 2019

ouch... your comment has been here a year and a half allready and no flame war has started yet haha

Level 24

Feb 5, 2017

Didn't know Yamaka and wasted a lot of time typing Jamaika, Jamaica, Jameika, Jameica, ... then gave up.

Level 80

Feb 10, 2017

This quiz reminds me of my years learning English on shortwave radio. There was this station from the US, quite noisy reception, two guys shouting at each other, they were really excited... every other sentence ended with the words "Hey, man!"

At least that's what I thought. A few weeks later that station came through much clearer and I realized what they were (still) yelling: Amen!

Level 46

Jul 8, 2017

Autocorrect helps so much with this quiz, it's great...

Level 67

Mar 13, 2018

My only two mistakes I made when I last did this quiz back in Jan 2017 were yamaka and dacqueri and they were the only two mistakes this time. Grrr.

Level 71

Mar 28, 2018

Why you think I'm in this b***h wearing a f*****g yarmulke

Level 31

Mar 28, 2018

where is there they're and their

Level 38

Mar 28, 2018

Mispelled is mispeleld

Level 28

Nov 7, 2018

I got all of the words right I had actually heard of before, which was most of them. sooo...

Level 69

Nov 7, 2018

Anyone else try ‘Grandma’? :)

Level 45

Feb 17, 2019

This was a chalenging quizz and i misd alot of them. I let Gramrly doo most of the speling.

Level 79

May 9, 2019

I can safely say that I have never misspelled Yarmulke, because I've never heard of that name before this quiz.

Judging by the number of comments here and the low percentage of users who even understood what this clue was about, I'd say it might be time to remove this question and replace it with something else.

Level 68

May 20, 2019

Seeing the words I spell correctly written incorrectly made some of the words harder to guess. I kept pronouncing "aquit" wrong - took me a minute to recognize it. Guessing without a sentence to put it in context is hard

Level 67

Jun 17, 2019

I really didnt know prerogative (I guess the view times I ve seen or heard it, it had allready been used the wrong way). I missed what was wrong with hallelujah because we write it without the h in my language. Celsius I got suckered into typing it wrong just because I read it... I normally allways write it right, but this time I tried celcius. (I tried not to read the words, but just glance them... wasnt able with all of them) And never heard of Yarmulke.

It is a bit short on time imo.

Level 89

Jun 26, 2019

I suspect auto correct does quite well on this quiz.

Level 33

Jul 3, 2019

I guess I kinda beat the system by doing this on Chrome web browser where I right clicked on the answer box to spellcheck

Level 82

Jul 3, 2019

Most quizzes on the website are easy if you cheat.

Level 51

Oct 22, 2019

That quiz was humbling, I kept thinking Yamaka was either a city in Washington state or a Japanese motorcycle.

Level 34

Oct 29, 2019

When you type it as its spelt then right click to get it right. Lol

Level 67

Dec 19, 2019

Can you please be more lenient on spelling in this quiz?

Level 48

Feb 26, 2020

I think the misspellings confused my mind on some and I couldn't get them right xD

Level 37

Sep 10, 2020

What about Business, while people spell it Buisness

Level 51

Oct 26, 2020

You can also spell somersault summersault.

Level 59

Nov 8, 2020

on Mac safari it automatically autocorrects my words XD

Level 89

Dec 1, 2020

I can't imagine anyone familiar with the Englishman's pronunciation of laboratory replacing the first O with an A.

Level 64

Nov 28, 2022

Well, anyone except an American or a Canadian, really. Never heard anyone else pronounce it that way. And let's be honest, 'laboruhtry' makes a lot more sense than 'labratuhry', because -tory is such a common suffix that it adds no value to put the emphasis on it.

Level 82

Dec 28, 2020

Thank you autocorrect

Level 60

Feb 8, 2021

Remember, Grammar is your Grandma but since Grandma doesn't have any E's so you write an A instead of a E. 😉

Level 64

Mar 25, 2021

What about Liechtenstein?

Level 94

Mar 29, 2021

THIS HURTS MY EYES! (great quiz though)

Level 76

Jul 27, 2021

I got a zero. I thought all the words were spelled correctly

Level 88

Jul 27, 2021

I got it right, but I've never understood why a word spelled yarmulke is pronounced like yamaka. What's that about?

Level 72

Jul 27, 2021

lol did not get acquit. To be honest, I didn't even know that's the word you were going for! Aquit is such a bizarre spelling for that!

Level 67

Jul 27, 2021

Daiquiri was easy cuz I remember the jelly bean flavor

Level 67

Jul 27, 2021

"How do you say 'banana daiquiri'?" "Banana daiquiri."

Level 43

Jan 4, 2022

Auto-correct gang

Level 25

Feb 3, 2023

def not me nope not at all😳

Level 29

Aug 8, 2022

i love that grammar is on a quiz

about mispelling…

Level 25

Feb 3, 2023

what the heck is a yarmulke

Level 83

Nov 17, 2023

scroll up a bit and you'll find out

Level 46

Jun 21, 2023

i didn't just try belvedere for bellweather....

Level 44

Oct 1, 2023

somersault can also be spelt summersault though

Level 49

Nov 18, 2023

anyone else never heard of paraphinalia, yamaha, perrogative and daquieri or am i just stupid

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