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The 200 Most Commonly Misspelled Words in English (Part 2)

By Richard Nordquist, About.com

In the table below you'll find part two of our list of 200 Commonly Misspelled Words:

After studying these words, try your hand at the review exercise that follows.

COMMONLY MISSPELLED WORDS (Part 2)

guidance
happiness
heroes
humorous
identity
imaginary
imitation
immediately
incidentally
independent
intelligent
interesting
interfere
interpretation
interruption
invitation
irrelevant
irritable
island
jealous
judgment
knowledge
laboratory
length
lesson
library
license
loneliness
losing
lying
marriage
mathematics
medicine
miniature
minute
mysterious
naturally
necessary
neighbor
neither
noticeable
occasion
occurred
official
often
omission
operate
optimism
original
ought
paid
parallel
particularly
peculiar
perceive
perform
permanent
persevere
personally
persuade
picture
piece
planning
pleasant
political
possess
possible
practical
prefer
prejudice
presence
privilege
probably
professional
promise

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