The 25 Most Commonly Misspelled Words *With poll*

[SwiftWind]

I admit, I rely heavily on spell checks to use these words in the test. How well did you do?
I also added a poll. Be honest!

http://www.businesswriting.com/tests/commonmisspelled.html

 

[jlee]

I did way worse than I expected..only 18 / 67%.

I'm going to blame it on my 13hr shift and then go to bed.

 

[lxskllr]

I got 19. Worse than I expected.

 

[HannibalX]

Perfect score. Private school FTW.

 

[mk]

25/27.

Embarrassing.

 

[Parasitic]

23/27

Missed:

1. embarrass
2. indispensable
3. prerogative
4. supersede

 

[Genx87]

Um they left out the most abused words in our language.

Their
There
They're

To
Too
Two

Your
You're

 

[mugs]

The most commonly misspelled word in the English language is "ridiculous."

 

[sjwaste]

I got 6 wrong - the two British ones at the end, and 4 others.

 

[daw123]

I'm rubbish at spelling: 17 points out of 27, although I was using the British spelling throughout.

 

[El Guaraguao]

god damn, i guess im borderline retarded. =\

Your score is: 9 points out of a possible 27
That is 33 % -- Fail

 

[Terzo]

15/27. I must not be qualified to post here.
Honestly, if it weren't for spell check highlighting misspelled words in firefox my posts would be grammatically atrocious. I think it helps though; when I see I've misspelled a word I can usually guess the correct spelling after a few tries. Maybe the correct spelling will sink in given enough time.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

much, much worse than I thought I would, damn.

 

[puffff]

I got 6 wrong - the two British ones at the end, and 4 others.

same here.

doesn't bug me that i missed the British ones though, seeing as how I don't live there.

 

[edro]

52% and I consider myself a good speller.

 

[DT4K]

21

 

[F1N3ST]

I must be having an off day, or I am too reliant on FF spell checker.

9

 

[moshquerade]

TGFSC

thank god for spell check.

it's spelled prerogative....hmmm.....

 

[F1N3ST]

TGFSC

thank god for spell check.

it's spelled prerogative....hmmm.....

ORLY? I got that one wrong.

 

[Fenixgoon]

56%. almost all the questions i got wrong were the "preferred" questions.

 

[moshquerade]

ORLY? I got that one wrong.

me also.

Did spell separate correctly though. That's actually a pet peeve word of mine.

 

[Quasmo]

16 correct

 

[ShawnD1]

Half of these are wrong. It says "acknowledgement" is an incorrect spelling, but type that into google and see what comes out. Notice how it has no suggested spelling correction?

 

[AstroManLuca]

Half of these are wrong. It says "acknowledgement" is an incorrect spelling, but type that into google and see what comes out. Notice how it has no suggested spelling correction?

American vs. British English, man. It says that in the question.

Acknowledgment is the American spelling. Acknowledgement is the British spelling.

BTW I got 20/26, which isn't as good as I should have done, but oh well. And because I got 20 I decided to vote for 20-26 rather than 16-20 (silly overlapping poll options).

 

[2Xtreme21]

Prerogative?? WTF?

13/27 btw. I always thought I was a good speller too...