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Wikipedia:List of common misspellings

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This list of common spelling mistakes is used to correct typos throughout Wikipedia with this maintenance page (http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Maintenance&subfunction=mispeelings).

Note that not all occurrences of these will be misspellings: if they are in song titles, for instance, they must be left as the author intended; if they are in transliterations such as Tao Teh Ching, then they may also be correct. Words may also be correctly spelled for pieces of text in other languages which occasionally appear within an English article yet be incorrect for English text. The guiding rule should be "Include words if they are more likely to be incorrect spellings than correct spellings even if this means that the maintenance page will occasionally show "false positives[?]".

Please don't delete a misspelling from this page just because it causes false positives. A better way of getting rid of false positives is to "comment them out[?]". This can be done by changing the initial * symbol on a line into a : symbol. If this is done, it means that it's easy to put potential spelling errors back if you want to rerun a check for them at some future time.

When adding a misspelling, it is a good idea to also add all grammatical variants of the word at the same time.

Note that Americans spell some words differently from the rest of the English speaking world. Since Wikipedia accepts all variant spellings you should also see: American and British English Differences

anual ("annual" or "anal" - except "Anual" is a proper noun)
carcas (carcass, Caracas)
collectable (collectible - OED has able as correct)
collectables (collectibles - OED has able as correct)
Cyprian (Cypriot (but Cyprian as a personal name))
donut (variant of doughnut)
enamoured (enamoured, enamored)
exemple (example)
grammer (grammar, except Kelsey Grammer)
grat (great)
greif (grief)
guillemet (guillemot - a bird)
guillemot (guillemet - French quotation mark)
heros (heroes)
humourous (This is not incorrect, just an alternative to humourous)
idae (idea)
leran (learn)
lief (life, leaf)
littel (little)
nickle (nickel)
noth (north)
paide (paid)
planed (planned; but valid if it means "made flat")
sargant (sergeant)
strnad (strand - unless the first name is Janez)
strat (start, strata)
tahn (than)
ther (there, their, the)
wanna (want to)
wont (wont or won't)
ws (was) but valid as country code WS +

In addition to these words, many words which are spelled correctly are confused with another word which sounds the same or is spelled similarly. For example:

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