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Commonly Misspelled Words #1

These words are misspelled. See if you can guess the correct spellings.
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First submittedJuly 6, 2011
Times taken93,267
Average score63.0%
Rating4.22
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Athelete
Athlete
Hygenic
Hygienic
Paraphenalia
Paraphernalia
Occassionaly
Occasionally
Priviledge
Privilege
Catagory
Category
Sophmore
Sophomore
Absorbant
Absorbent
Pilgramage
Pilgrimage
Incorrect
Correct
Oddessy
Odyssey
Hallaluja
Hallelujah
Fourty
Forty
Indespensible
Indispensable
Yamaka
Yarmulke
Independant
Independent
Summersalt
Somersault
Camoflage
Camouflage
Bellweather
Bellwether
Incorrect
Correct
Celcius
Celsius
Labratory
Laboratory
Cemetary
Cemetery
Grammer
Grammar
Mischevious
Mischievous
Noticable
Noticeable
Perogative
Prerogative
Aquit
Acquit
Daqueri
Daiquiri
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101 Recent Comments
shanetaylor
+4
Level 29
Feb 25, 2012
Seeing Hallelujah spelled hallaluja, i couldn't even figure out what the word was xD
stone222
+2
Level 48
Oct 12, 2018
just thought of Leonard Cohen...lol
mariofan367
+6
Level 14
Apr 30, 2012
I thought I would breeze through this. It's much harder than it looks.
Nobody
+1
Level 15
May 10, 2012
16/28 I'm so proud of myself. Considering I sing the Hallelujah Chorus every year in Choir, it's kind of shaming that I coultn't figure out how to spell it.
bamagal1012
+1
Level 5
Jun 4, 2012
wow. great quiz. loved it. u should make more lik it
AleckrulesOK
+6
Level 19
Jul 9, 2012
Really good fun - though I have no idea what yamuka (?) or bellwether might be.
ander217
+14
Level 74
Jun 6, 2014
I know bellwether because we raise sheep. A castrated male is called a wether, and they used to put a bell around the lead sheep's neck so they could hear where the herd was in the field. The term has come to mean anything that leads or trends, and is often heard in politics to describe a small area whose voting results often predict the outcome of the whole election. "The results are in from ___ County, which is a bellwether for predicting the winner."
DonTheLamplighter
+6
Level 85
Jul 27, 2021
Usually, you learn from the quiz. But sometimes you learn from the comments. Thanks for this, ander217. Very interesting and informative.
AleckrulesOK
+2
Level 19
Jul 9, 2012
How about "accommodation"? Almost always misspelt as "accomodation" ?
barmanitan
+2
Level 80
Dec 1, 2018
or accomadation
Sifhraven
+3
Level 72
Jun 17, 2019
nuclear... is the top one I think nuculair or whatever. Also seperate-separate, calender-calendar, definitely-definately. I think there are more that are very common but cant think of em atm.

The list is endless ofcourse. But if you want to do a sequel, these are the ones I ve seen most (by people of average or above intelligence that do not often make spelling errors, not the ones that do not know the difference between there their and they're)

In my language I think it would be (am)minutie instead of (am)munitie. (ammunition, maybe misspelled in english aswell, as ammonition?) and legimitatie instead of legitimatie.

I personally had a tough time with necessary/necessity and nauseous for a long time, so many options for variations.

AleckrulesOK
+1
Level 19
Jul 9, 2012
PS - loved the game!!
Snowman13
+1
Level 29
Feb 27, 2018
Yes! Super Mario Odyssey hype! That game rocked! :)
thalassemia
+4
Level 25
Aug 9, 2012
So close, the only one I didn't get was Yarmulke. Normally every quiz on this site has a bunch of idiots in the comment section harping on about how this or that misspelling should be accepted because they're too ignorant to learn the right way. Hopefully this shuts them up.
petronomicon
+3
Level 33
Aug 26, 2019
Great coment! You're post was dead on.

Could we be best friend??

quizzygirl
+1
Level 26
Sep 5, 2012
18/24 ran out of time.
cariad
+1
Level 42
Jun 3, 2015
Need more time please.
Zefyrinus
+2
Level 72
May 21, 2013
Gah! I almost didn't get yarmulke because "yamaka" looks nothing like it. It sounds Japanese. :/ And segue I didn't get because I had no idea what it was, and since segway is a thing. And bellwether I had no idea what it was. :(
DorkmeisterBlu
+4
Level 73
Nov 11, 2013
I had no idea what Yamaka was supposed to mean? Yarmulke I know...
divantilya
+10
Level 36
Jul 3, 2019
I kept trying for the Japanese motorcycle company "Yamaha"..
JackintheBox
+2
Level 80
Oct 16, 2020
I thought it was a piano company.
nightowl
+1
Level 62
Jan 21, 2014
I'm sure I entered Hallelujah several times but it was not accepted. Was curious to know the answer
Wassboss8
+1
Level 81
Apr 24, 2014
Not very hard when chrome gives you an auto spell option. Al I had to do was type in the incorrect spelling of the word and it underlined it in red and gave me the correct spelling. Only missed 4 because of this. :)
ColoHarpare
+6
Level 50
Apr 29, 2014
Yeah, but that's totally cheating! What's the point?
TheWombat
+10
Level 73
May 28, 2014
Crikey! If I was using auto-correct and still missed 4 I'd keep that to myself, I reckon ;o)
JackintheBox
+3
Level 80
Oct 16, 2020
Congratulations! not
Rachel24601
+2
Level 46
Jun 7, 2014
I've never seen athlete misspelled that way. Do some people pronounce it with three syllables or something? I've never heard that.
ColoHarpare
+1
Level 50
Aug 6, 2014
LOTS of people say "ath-a-leet", at least in the western US.
GOFREOPANDAS
+1
Level 14
Oct 2, 2014
gotta love auto correct
Quizzer6794
+1
Level 65
Mar 24, 2015
O and did anywun noteice that ewe spelld the werd "spell" rong?
akwildrose
+1
Level 51
Jul 1, 2015
It took me a bit to figure out what the heck "yamaka" was supposed to be. Once I figured it out what word it was supposed to be, I knew how to spell it. Missed a few others, though.
Hominka
+3
Level 81
Mar 11, 2016
I know how to spell 'yarmulke', but had no idea what word was being asked for. Should have an explanation for that one. Like:

Yamaka (Jewish hat).

Emilie9263
+2
Level 14
Mar 17, 2016
Speaking french kinda helps for words like "athlete", "hygienic", "privilege", "category" and a few others. We sure have our spelling failures too, but french pronounciation of these words tells us the answer.
MasterKenobi
+1
Level 61
Feb 3, 2017
You misspelled pronunciation... ;)

Great English, though!

Jerry928
+3
Level 76
Apr 12, 2016
This quiz doesn't seem to accept any type-ins.
kiwiquizzer
+1
Level 68
Aug 7, 2016
Heh heh
sleekcollins
+4
Level 68
Sep 23, 2016
All this time I've been thinking mischievous is spelled mischevious? My life's been a big lie.
mariposita
+2
Level 69
Nov 24, 2016
Took me a while to figure out what the heck Yamaka and Aquit were supposed to mean.
LyRiKH
+1
Level 51
Dec 10, 2016
Good quiz. Yamaka as a clue not the best choice if it represents another word/thing spelled correctly. 27/27
svitapeneela
+2
Level 65
Jan 22, 2017
Only missed "Bellwether", 'cos I've never heard of it!
Sifhraven
+2
Level 72
Jun 17, 2019
hadnt either, but figured it would be wether or whether.
RealDad12
+2
Level 67
Jan 22, 2017
I had enough time left to try a few possibilities for yarmulke and daiquiri, but none of them stuck. Damn! >:-(
leopard9090
+1
Level 81
Jan 22, 2017
you should add antarctica
travelfan
+3
Level 67
Jan 22, 2017
Foreign speaker, managed to get them all (although cemetery made me sweat a bunch) except Yamaka. For the life of me I had no idea what the right word was supposed to be. I had seen the word Yarmulke before and knew what it was, but I had no idea that the pronunciation could be similar and wouldn't have made the connection.
Devondragin
+2
Level 52
Jan 23, 2017
It's kind of difficult to spell some of these words could you accept more alternate spellings?
Devondragin
+1
Level 52
Jan 23, 2017
haha jk
Corrode
+3
Level 60
Jan 23, 2017
Got them all but I don't think yamaka/yarmulke is a very good clue. Like a lot of others, I got it by sounding it out, but the misspelling isn't very suggestive of what might be intended.
MeiHotaru
+2
Level 28
Jan 24, 2017
I mean no offence when I say Yarmulke is something only Jews would get
RobNobody
+7
Level 78
Mar 28, 2018
I'm not Jewish, and I got it right away.
kogatora
+4
Level 93
Feb 10, 2019
^^ you underestimate the awareness of Jewish culture in our world
HyddenRizz
+1
Level 67
Sep 18, 2022
*in the USA

Whenever I watch US TV shows, there's so many Jewish references. It's not a bad thing (although sometimes the references are not too positive)

But there's not as much bearing on your religion in some other parts of the world as there is in the USA.

PigLatin
+1
Level 28
Jan 25, 2017
Lol I just typed in the misspelled work and used auto correct to fix it
Thorvald
+3
Level 71
Feb 5, 2017
Some ideas for the next part: donut instead of doughnut, honor instead of honour, fall instead of autumn... ;)
Sifhraven
+3
Level 72
Jun 17, 2019
ouch... your comment has been here a year and a half allready and no flame war has started yet haha
JoshuaGreen
+2
Level 24
Feb 5, 2017
Didn't know Yamaka and wasted a lot of time typing Jamaika, Jamaica, Jameika, Jameica, ... then gave up.
eibi
+3
Level 80
Feb 10, 2017
This quiz reminds me of my years learning English on shortwave radio. There was this station from the US, quite noisy reception, two guys shouting at each other, they were really excited... every other sentence ended with the words "Hey, man!"

At least that's what I thought. A few weeks later that station came through much clearer and I realized what they were (still) yelling: Amen!

prestissimo
+1
Level 46
Jul 8, 2017
Autocorrect helps so much with this quiz, it's great...
RealDad12
+1
Level 67
Mar 13, 2018
My only two mistakes I made when I last did this quiz back in Jan 2017 were yamaka and dacqueri and they were the only two mistakes this time. Grrr.
hq21
+2
Level 72
Mar 28, 2018
Why you think I'm in this b***h wearing a f*****g yarmulke
RollingThunder46
+1
Level 31
Mar 28, 2018
where is there they're and their
payel123
+1
Level 37
Mar 28, 2018
Mispelled is mispeleld
HPaddict
+1
Level 27
Nov 7, 2018
I got all of the words right I had actually heard of before, which was most of them. sooo...
Anzi
+1
Level 69
Nov 7, 2018
Anyone else try ‘Grandma’? :)
KrazyKookieKing
+1
Level 45
Feb 17, 2019
This was a chalenging quizz and i misd alot of them. I let Gramrly doo most of the speling.
blizzrd33
+3
Level 80
May 9, 2019
I can safely say that I have never misspelled Yarmulke, because I've never heard of that name before this quiz.

Judging by the number of comments here and the low percentage of users who even understood what this clue was about, I'd say it might be time to remove this question and replace it with something else.

Jozi
+1
Level 69
May 20, 2019
Seeing the words I spell correctly written incorrectly made some of the words harder to guess. I kept pronouncing "aquit" wrong - took me a minute to recognize it. Guessing without a sentence to put it in context is hard
Sifhraven
+1
Level 72
Jun 17, 2019
I really didnt know prerogative (I guess the view times I ve seen or heard it, it had allready been used the wrong way). I missed what was wrong with hallelujah because we write it without the h in my language. Celsius I got suckered into typing it wrong just because I read it... I normally allways write it right, but this time I tried celcius. (I tried not to read the words, but just glance them... wasnt able with all of them) And never heard of Yarmulke.

It is a bit short on time imo.

IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 90
Jun 26, 2019
I suspect auto correct does quite well on this quiz.
DrIlluminati123
+1
Level 33
Jul 3, 2019
I guess I kinda beat the system by doing this on Chrome web browser where I right clicked on the answer box to spellcheck
kalbahamut
+5
Level 81
Jul 3, 2019
Most quizzes on the website are easy if you cheat.
pmeplant
+1
Level 51
Oct 22, 2019
That quiz was humbling, I kept thinking Yamaka was either a city in Washington state or a Japanese motorcycle.
Mcasslicker
+1
Level 34
Oct 29, 2019
When you type it as its spelt then right click to get it right. Lol
EytanMelech
+1
Level 67
Dec 19, 2019
Can you please be more lenient on spelling in this quiz?
Zenelle
+2
Level 48
Feb 26, 2020
I think the misspellings confused my mind on some and I couldn't get them right xD
SMFlex
+2
Level 54
Apr 24, 2024
I see the misspellings, and am like, isn’t that actually how you spell it? I’m normally really good at spelling but the way our brains read it you just see it and can’t get it out of there.
UltraEl1te
+1
Level 37
Sep 10, 2020
What about Business, while people spell it Buisness
svelte
+1
Level 51
Oct 26, 2020
You can also spell somersault summersault.
EvanAviator
+1
Level 59
Nov 8, 2020
on Mac safari it automatically autocorrects my words XD
IsleAuHaulte
+2
Level 90
Dec 1, 2020
I can't imagine anyone familiar with the Englishman's pronunciation of laboratory replacing the first O with an A.
RJF
+1
Level 63
Nov 28, 2022
Well, anyone except an American or a Canadian, really. Never heard anyone else pronounce it that way. And let's be honest, 'laboruhtry' makes a lot more sense than 'labratuhry', because -tory is such a common suffix that it adds no value to put the emphasis on it.
BMDragon
+1
Level 83
Dec 28, 2020
Thank you autocorrect
FaroPor
+1
Level 60
Feb 8, 2021
Remember, Grammar is your Grandma but since Grandma doesn't have any E's so you write an A instead of a E. 😉
LuigiDood227
+1
Level 64
Mar 25, 2021
What about Liechtenstein?
KainenManas
+1
Level 96
Mar 29, 2021
THIS HURTS MY EYES! (great quiz though)
tbolt
+1
Level 77
Jul 27, 2021
I got a zero. I thought all the words were spelled correctly
vermiciousknid
+1
Level 89
Jul 27, 2021
I got it right, but I've never understood why a word spelled yarmulke is pronounced like yamaka. What's that about?
madmonte
+1
Level 72
Jul 27, 2021
lol did not get acquit. To be honest, I didn't even know that's the word you were going for! Aquit is such a bizarre spelling for that!
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 70
Jul 27, 2021
Daiquiri was easy cuz I remember the jelly bean flavor
jmellor13
+1
Level 67
Jul 27, 2021
"How do you say 'banana daiquiri'?" "Banana daiquiri."
Randomperson1
+1
Level 45
Jan 4, 2022
Auto-correct gang
pokecrossing494
+1
Level 25
Feb 3, 2023
def not me nope not at all😳
TCubes
+1
Level 30
Aug 8, 2022
i love that grammar is on a quiz

about mispelling…

pokecrossing494
+1
Level 25
Feb 3, 2023
what the heck is a yarmulke
brandybuck96
+2
Level 83
Nov 17, 2023
scroll up a bit and you'll find out
JustinRS
+1
Level 56
Jun 21, 2023
i didn't just try belvedere for bellweather....
larrao
+1
Level 45
Oct 1, 2023
somersault can also be spelt summersault though
DawnX
+1
Level 54
Nov 18, 2023
anyone else never heard of paraphinalia, yamaha, perrogative and daquieri or am i just stupid
orange3472
+1
Level 67
Apr 24, 2024
I think the correct spelling is "Sematary"...at least that's what Stephen King told me
drinkBeerBeFree
+1
Level 48
Jul 11, 2024
tf is a "yamurkle"
Sinope
+1
Level 45
Oct 5, 2024
Challenging quiz. I prevailed! #SpellingBeeChampion
oregon
+1
Level 29
Nov 6, 2024
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