Common Mistakes in Spelling and Word Usage

• accept / except
• accommodate, accommodation (NOT "accomodate")
• acquaintance
• affect / effect
• aisle / isle
• among / between
• amount / number
• anxious / eager
• argument (NOT "arguement")
• bad / badly
• believe (NOT "beleive")
• causal / casual
• chord / cord
• cite / site / sight
• complement / compliment
• compose / consist / comprise
• conceive (NOT "concieve")
• conscience / conscious
• consistency (NOT "consistancy")
• currently / presently
• definitely / defiantly
• definition
• desert / dessert
• discreet / discrete
• disinterested / uninterested
• do / due / dew
• e.g. / i.e.
• each other / one another
• empirical / imperial
• everyday / every day
• existence (NOT "existance")
• fewer / less
• imply / infer
• indispensable (NOT "indispensible")
• inherent (NOT "inherant")
• it’s / its
• judgment (American English -- not "judgement")
• know / no
• knowledge
• like / as
• loose / lose
• millennium (NOT "millenium")
• necessary (NOT "necesary")
• occurrence (NOT "occurance" or "occurence"))
• phenomenon (singular), phenomena (plural)
• philosophy
• posses / possess
• principal / principle
• regretfully / regrettably
• sole / soul
• supersede (NOT "supercede")
• than / then
• there / they’re / their
• toward (American English -- not "towards")
• udder / utter
• weather / whether
• who’s / whose
• your / you’re