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)