Statistics for Commonly Confused Words

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	Definition	Word	% Correct
9	possessive form of YOU	your	89%
10	contraction of YOU ARE	you're	89%
15	given life	born	78%
17	a device for stopping or slowing down	brake	78%
18	to shatter or come apart	break	78%
19	not tight or firm	loose	78%
20	to suffer loss; fail to win	lose	78%
3	a worker in a mine	miner	78%
4	under leagal age	minor	78%
11	not fancy; undecorated	plain	67%
12	a flat surface	plane	67%
23	not crooked or curved	straight	67%
24	channel between two large bodies of water	strait	67%
36	THEY ARE	they're	67%
16	carried; endured	borne	56%
39	silent	quiet	56%
35	at that place	there	56%
1	a rise; a climb	ascent	44%
5	at a subsequent time	later	44%
38	head of a school	principal	44%
13	middle part of the body	waist	44%
14	useless spending; unused material	waste	44%
2	consent	assent	33%
6	the second of two	latter	33%
37	a basic or general truth	principle	33%
40	considerably or very	quite	33%
27	calmness	peace	22%
22	individual; private	personal	22%
28	a part or portion fo something	piece	22%
8	something that completes or makes whole	complement	11%
7	praise	compliment	11%
26	a group assembled for conferences	council	11%
25	to advise	counsel	11%
21	group of people employed in the same work or service	personnel	11%
29	rough; crude	coarse	0%
30	path of action; passage	course	0%
31	in a strict or dignified manner	formally	0%
32	in the past	formerly	0%
34	clever; resourceful	ingenious	0%
33	trusting; frank	ingenuous	0%

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