Choosing the Correct Word: Clearing Up Common Confusions (P-S)

It's easy to confuse words that are similar in sound, spelling, or meaning. But with a bit of review it's also easy to clear up such confusions. Visit our newly expanded Index of Commonly Confused Words.

P

• Passed & Past


• Persecute & Prosecute


• Personal & Personnel


• Pore & Pour


• Precede & Proceed


• Prescribe & Proscribe


• Principal & Principle

Q

• Quell & Quench


• Quiet, Quit, & Quite


• Quotation & Quote

R

• Rain, Reign, & Rein


• Raise & Rise


• Rational & Rationale


• Recourse & Resource


• Respectively & Respectfully


• Role & Roll

S

• Serve & Service


• Set & Sit


• Should & Would


• Sometime, Some time, & Sometimes


• Stationary & Stationery


• Statue & Statute

Index of Commonly Confused Words

• Commonly Confused Words: A
• Commonly Confused Words: B-E
• Commonly Confused Words: F-K
• Commonly Confused Words: L-O
• Commonly Confused Words: T-Z