Misspelled Words in Ham Radio

Misspelled words in Amateur Radio - Many hams do not use a spell checker while typing a document. Put a more professional look on articles you write by at least having the words spelled correctly. To use this list, read it and try to place these commonly misspelled words in the back of your mind. You may recall that one of them looks off. Come back to this page to verify. Make corrections to your text and add get some respect.

A–B

absence – absense, absance

acceptable – acceptible

accidentally/accidently – accidentaly

accommodate – accomodate, acommodate

achieve – acheive

acknowledge – acknowlege, aknowledge

acquaintance – acquaintence, aquaintance

acquire – aquire, adquire

acquit – aquit

acreage – acrage, acerage

address – adress

adultery – adultary

advisable – adviseable, advizable

affect – effect

aggression – agression, aggresion

alcohol – alchohol

algorithm - algorythm

allege – alege, allage

allegiance – allegaince, allegience, alegiance

almost – allmost

a lot – alot (must be two words)

amateur – amatuer, amature

amend – ammend

annually – anually, annualy

apparent – apparant, aparent

arctic – artic

argument – arguement

atheist – athiest

average – avrage, averege

awful – awfull, aweful

balance – ballance, balence

basically – basicly

because – becuase

becoming – becomeing

beginning – begining

believe – beleive

bellwether – bellweather

buoy/buoyant – bouy/bouyant

burglar – burgler

business – bisness, bussiness,

bizness, buisness

C–D

calendar – calender

camouflage – camoflage, camoflague

capitol – capital(both words exist, but are distinct)

career – carrer

careful – carefull

Caribbean – Carribean

category – catagory

caught – cauhgt, caugt

cemetery – cemetary, cematery

changeable – changable

chief – cheif

colleague – collaegue, collegue

collectible – collectable

column – colum

comfortable - confortable

coming – comming

committed – commited, comitted

competition – compitition

concede – conceed

conceive - concieve

congratulate – congradulate

conscientious – consciencious

conscious – concious, consious

consensus – concensus

controversy – contraversy

convenience – conveniance

coolly – cooly

criticize – critecize, critisize

daiquiri – dacquiri, daquiri

deceive – decieve

definite – definate, definit

definitely – definitly, definately, defiantly

desperate – desparate

difference – diffrence

dilemma – dilema

disappoint – disapoint

disastrous – disasterous

drunkenness – drunkeness

dumbbell – dumbell

E–H

embarrass – embarass

equipment – equiptment (wrong in numerous webpages)

exceed – excede

exhilarate – exilerate

existence – existance

experience – experiance

extreme – extreem

fascinating – facinating

fiery – firey

fluorescent – flourescent

foreign – foriegn

friend – freind

fulfil – fullfil (American: fulfill)

gauge – guage

grateful – gratefull, greatful

guarantee – garantee, garentee, garanty

guidance – guidence

harass – harrass

height – heighth, heigth

hierarchy – heirarchy

hors d'oeuvres – hors derves, ordeurves

humorous – humerous

hygiene – hygene, hygine, hiygeine, higeine, hygeine

hypocrisy/hypocrite – hipocrit

I–K

ignorance – ignorence

imaginary – imaginery

imitate – immitate

imitation – immitation, imitashun

immediately – imediately

incidentally – incidently

independent – independant

indispensable – indispensible

inoculate – innoculate

intelligence – inteligence, intelligance

interesting – intresting

interfere

interpretation

interruption – interuption

irrelevant – irrelevent

irritable – irritible

island – iland

its - it's (and vice versa)

jealous – jellous

jewelry (UK: jewellery) – jewelery

judgment – judgement (issue in the U.S.)

kernel – kernal, distinct from homophone colonel

L–O

leisure – liesure

liaison – liason

library – libary, liberry

license – lisence (US always license, UK noun licence)

lightning – lightening

maintenance – maintenence, maintainance, maintnance

medieval – medeval, medevil, mideval

memento – momento

millennium – millenium, milennium

miniature – miniture

minuscule – miniscule[dubious – discuss]

mischievous – mischievious, mischevous, mischevious (The spelling "mischievious" and the corresponding pronunciation are still considered non-standard despite being current and existing since at least the 16th century.)

misspell – mispell, misspel

necessary – neccessary, necessery

niece – neice

neighbor – nieghbor

noticeable – noticable

occasion – occassion

occasionally – occasionaly, occassionally

occurrence – occurrance, occurence

occurred – occured

omission – ommision, omision

original – orignal

outrageous – outragous

P–Q

parliament – parliment

pastime – passtime, pasttime

perceive – percieve

perseverance – perseverence

personnel – personell, personel

plagiarize – plagerize

playwright – playright, playwrite

possession – posession, possesion

potatoes – potatos

precede – preceed

presence – presance

principle – principal

privilege – privelege, priviledge

professor – professer

promise – promiss

pronunciation – pronounciation

proof – prufe

prophecy (as noun) – prophesy (valid as verb)

publicly – publically

quarantine – quarentine

queue – que (from Bar-B-Que)

questionnaire – questionaire, questionnair

R–S

readable – readible

really – realy

receive – recieve

receipt – reciept

recommend – recomend, reccommend

referred – refered

reference – referance, refrence

relevant – relevent, revelant

religious – religous, religius

repetition – repitition

restaurant – restarant, restaraunt

rhyme – rime, ryme

rhythm – rythm, rythem

secretary – secratary, secretery

seize – sieze

separate – seperate

sergeant – sargent

similar – similer

skilful – skilfull (American: skillful)

speech – speach, speeche (archaic)

successful – succesful, successfull, sucessful

supersede - supercede

surprise – suprise, surprize

T–Z

their – there, they're

tomatoes – tomatos

tomorrow – tommorrow

twelfth – twelth

tyranny – tyrany

underrate – underate

until – untill

upholstery – upholstry

usable/useable – usible

using – useing

usually – usualy

vacuum – vaccuum, vacume

vegetarian – vegatarian

vehicle – vehical

vicious – visious

weather – wether

weird – wierd

welfare – wellfare, welfair

whether – wether

wilful – wilfull (American: willful)

withhold – withold

writing – writting, writeing

your - you're (and vice versa)