Commonly misspelled English words are words that are often unintentionally misspelled in general writing.

Common Causes of Misspellings

• Mispronunciation: It is known to be one of the most common causes of misspelling. Hence, phonetic misspelling is common, once a word is mispronounced. For example, the word realize may be misspelled as ‘relize’.
• Typing errors: Some spelling errors are introduced because the typing of certain people is not perfect, such as:
  • letters are doubled, or more frequently double letters tripled, such as ‘betwween’ and ‘betweeen’;
  • letters are singled, such as ‘betwen’;
  • keys are transposed, so ‘because’ becomes ‘becuase’.
  • Some of the errors listed may be due to mistyping rather than ignorance, for example ‘solider’ for ‘soldier’, although these forms of errors rarely ever happen in handwritten text.