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Spelling - Commonly Mispelt Misspelt Words (letters O to Z)

• Obbligato (not to be omitted - a musical term) (6.33)
• Obese (8.00)
• Obey (6.33)
• Oblige (no 'd') (8.00)
• Occasion (8.00)
• Occur (5.71)
• Occurred (8.50)
• Occurrence (7.50)
• Occurring (8.00)
• Ocean (7.25)
• Oche (6.25)
• Ocular (8.00)
• Oesophagus (8.00)
• Offered (6.86)
• Office/Officer (6.25)
• Official/Officially (8.00)
• Often (8.00)
• Ogre (8.50)
• Olympics (8.00)
• Omelette (8.58)
• Omission (8.67)
• Once (8.50)
• One (8.00)
• Onerous (7.50)
• Onion (7.50)
• Only (8.00)
• Onomatopoeia (quack, roar, baa, woof, clap....etc) (7.50)
• Opaque (not transparent) (8.00)
• Openness (5.60)
• Opera (6.75)
• Operate (7.50)
• Opportunity (8.80)
• Opposite (8.00)
• Oppress (crush/overpower/abuse) (7.50)
• Orange (8.45)
• Orchestra (6.88)
• Ordinary (8.00)
• Ordnance Survey Map (no i between the d & n) (8.00)
• Original (5.14)
• Orphan (5.00)
• Other (7.00)
• Our (5.33)
• Out (5.88)
• Oven (7.50)
• Owe (6.50)
• Owl (4.89)
• Pacific (8.00)
• Packet (3.80)
• Paediatrics/Paediatrician (treatment & illnesses of children) (5.50)
• Pageant (6.25)
• Paid (5.60)
• Pain (4.83)
• Paint (4.43)
• Pair (4.00)
• Palace (4.75)
• Palate (6.20)
• Palette (6.57)
• Palm (7.00)
• Pane (window) (6.00)
• Panicking (7.83)
• Paparazzi (5.36)
• Paper (6.40)
• Parachute (7.29)
• Paragraph (8.00)
• Parallel(s) (8.00)
• Parcel (5.00)
• Parent (7.75)
• Parenthesis (brackets) (5.33)
• Parliament (8.25)
• Participants (6.30)
• Particular/Particularly (7.29)
• Pass (8.00)
• Passion (8.00)
• Pastime (7.33)
• Path (6.14)
• Patience (4.67)
• Patient(s) (8.00)
• Patisserie(s) (8.27)
• Patron (6.33)
• Pauper (poor person) (8.00)
• Pause (8.00)
• Pavilion (7.89)
• Paw (5.80)
• Peace (7.50)
• Peak (8.50)
• Pearl (6.67)
• Peasant (5.50)
• Pencil (6.75)
• Penguin (8.73)
• Penicillin (7.43)
• Penniless (5.33)
• Penultimate - Next to last/Second last (8.67)
• People (8.00)
• Pepperoni (7.75)
• Percolate (7.50)
• Perfect (8.00)
• Perfectly (7.33)
• Period (8.00)
• Periphery (perimeter/edge/boundary) (8.00)
• Permanent (8.67)
• Permission (7.20)
• Permitting (6.00)
• Perseverance (8.00)
• Persistence (6.50)
• Persistent (8.00)
• Personal & Personnel (8.33)
• Persuade/Persuasive (4.40)
• Peruse (8.50)
• Petrol (8.67)
• Pharaoh (5.50)
• Pharmaceutical (6.50)
• Pharmacy (7.50)
• Phase (8.00)
• Phenolphthalein (acid-base indicator in Chemistry) (8.80)
• Phenomenal/Phenomenon (8.00)
• Phlegm (4.55)
• Phoenix (7.50)
• Phone (8.00)
• Phonetic/Phonetically (8.00)
• Photograph (5.50)
• Photosynthesis (8.00)
• Phrase (7.00)
• Physical (8.00)
• Physician (8.33)
• Physics (5.50)
• Picnicking (5.50)
• Picture (8.00)
• Pie (6.33)
• Piece (8.50)
• Pier (6.20)
• Pierce (8.00)
• Pigeon (7.00)
• Pilot (8.00)
• Pint (7.25)
• Pirate (7.50)
• Pistachio (7.75)
• Pivot (8.00)
• Placid (7.75)
• Plagiarism/Plagiarise (7.00)
• Plain (8.50)
• Plane (7.00)
• Planet (8.00)
• Planning (7.80)
• Plant (6.00)
• Plaque (8.00)
• Playwright (8.00)
• Pleasant (7.50)
• Please (7.00)
• Plumber (8.00)
• Plural (8.00)
• Pneumatic (7.60)
• Pneumonia (7.33)
• Pocket (5.25)
• Poison (8.00)
• Police (8.50)
• Polite (4.50)
• Pollution (7.25)
• Pomegranate (8.00)
• Pompous (5.00)
• Poor (8.00)
• Popular (8.00)
• Porridge (8.40)
• Poseur (6.80)
• Possesses (5 Ss) (8.00)
• Possession (8.00)
• Possible (5.50)
• Post (2.75)
• Pound (5.50)
• Pour/Pouring (5.50)
• Power (5.33)
• Practice (Noun) & Practise (Verb) (7.00)
• Precinct (6.67)
• Precious (8.00)
• Precis (sum-up/summary/brief) (8.00)
• Precise (5.80)
• Preferred (6.75)
• Preferring (6.40)
• Pregnant (7.80)
• Preliminary (8.00)
• Premier (3.60)
• Premiere (7.50)
• Premises (7.43)
• Premonition (6.80)
• Preparatory (6.67)
• Prepare (8.00)
• Prerogative (7.00)
• President (8.00)
• Prestige (7.25)
• Presumptuous (6.29)
• Pretend (6.20)
• Pretension (6.75)
• Pretty (8.33)
• Prevalent (8.00)
• Preview (8.00)
• Previous (8.00)
• Prey (7.00)
• Principle & Principal (7.86)
• Prior (7.00)
• Priory (7.60)
• Pristine (6.50)
• Private (6.50)
• Privet (shrub) (5.00)
• Privilege (8.50)
• Probably (6.50)
• Proceed (8.50)
• Process (8.00)
• Produce (7.29)
• Professional (8.50)
• Professor (6.67)
• Programme (8.00)
• Prominent (7.00)
• Promise (8.00)
• Pronounce (7.50)
• Pronunciation (8.00)
• Propaganda (8.00)
• Propeller (8.50)
• Prosecution (7.33)
• Prostate (8.00)
• Protestant (8.00)
• Protractor (7.60)
• Psalm (6.33)
• Pseudonym (6.20)
• Psyche (prononced 'Sighkey') - Spirit or soul (8.00)
• Psychic (8.50)
• Psycho (7.50)
• Pudding (4.40)
• Puerile (childish) (8.00)
• Puke (6.75)
• Pull (6.33)
• Pure (8.00)
• Purpose (6.67)
• Pursue (6.79)
• Push (8.00)
• Put (8.00)
• Pyjamas (6.40)
• Quality (8.00)
• Qualm (8.00)
• Quantity (7.67)
• Quarrel (8.00)
• Quay (8.00)
• Query (8.00)
• Question (8.00)
• Questionnaire (8.00)
• Queue/Queuing (8.75)
• Quiche (8.00)
• Quiet (8.00)
• Quite (8.00)
• Rabbit (7.17)
• Race/Racing (7.33)
• Raconteur (witty storyteller) (8.00)
• Radio (8.67)
• Radish (4.50)
• Rail (8.00)
• Rain (8.50)
• Raise (5.33)
• Raisin (8.00)
• Rare (8.00)
• Rarefy (8.00)
• Raspberry (6.75)
• Ratatouille (6.33)
• Raze (demolish) (8.00)
• Read (8.00)
• Ready (8.00)
• Real (7.33)
• Really (8.00)
• Ream (8.00)
• Rearrange (7.00)
• Reason (8.00)
• Receipt (7.75)
• Receive (6.80)
• Recent/Recently (7.25)
• Reception (8.00)
• Recession (8.67)
• Recipe (8.20)
• Recommend (8.00)
• Reduce (5.00)
• Redundant (4.80)
• Referral (6.50)
• Referred (8.25)
• Referring (8.29)
• Refrigerator (no 'd') (7.80)
• Regardless (6.50)
• Regardless not irregardless (4.43)
• Regime (8.00)
• Registrar (8.00)
• Regrettably (6.11)
• Regularly (7.50)
• Rehearse (7.83)
• Reign (7.50)
• Rein (5.43)
• Reindeer (7.00)
• Relevance/Relevant (8.67)
• Relief/Relieve/Relieved (8.50)
• Religion (7.25)
• Religious (5.33)
• Remain (8.50)
• Remembrance (7.50)
• Reminisce/Reminiscent (7.43)
• ReMUNeration (not ReNUMeration) meaning salary (8.00)
• Renaissance (5.50)
• Renault (7.20)
• Renege (Go back on your word) (7.00)
• Repair (8.00)
• Repeat (5.75)
• Repel (8.00)
• Repellent (5.60)
• Repertoire (8.00)
• Rescue (5.50)
• Reservoir (5.50)
• Resident (7.50)
• Resilient/Resilience (6.60)
• Resistant (7.00)
• Resolution (8.00)
• Resource/Resources (8.00)
• Responsible/Responsibility (7.00)
• Restaurant (8.33)
• Restaurateur (8.00)
• Resuscitation (7.50)
• Reticent (4.50)
• Revelation (5.00)
• Revenge (7.67)
• Review (7.33)
• Reward (8.00)
• Rheumatism (7.00)
• Rhino (8.67)
• Rhinoceroses (7.00)
• Rho'dodendron' (5.33)
• Rhubarb (6.83)
• Rhyme (7.25)
• Rhythm (7.13)
• Rich (4.50)
• Ridiculous (5.33)
• Right (6.50)
• Righteous (2.75)
• Rigid (8.00)
• Risotto (6.91)
• Rite (8.00)
• Roam (4.80)
• Roar (5.89)
• Roast (6.80)
• Rococo (Ornate decoration or style) (7.00)
• Rogue (8.00)
• Roll (7.00)
• Rolled (8.50)
• Rough (6.00)
• Roulette (7.00)
• Round (6.00)
• Route (8.00)
• Routine (7.17)
• Ruby (4.50)
• Rude (8.00)
• Rule (8.00)
• Ruminate (Reflect deeply/Chew over) (8.00)
• Rumour (8.00)
• Running (8.00)
• Sardine (8.00)
• Saturday (8.00)
• Saw (8.00)
• Scream (7.00)
• Scrumptious (6.50)
• Sense (8.00)
• Servant (8.00)
• Several (6.00)
• Sieve (7.50)
• Similar (8.00)
• Simple (8.00)
• Simultaneous/Simultaneously (5.67)
• Sincerely (8.00)
• Siphon (8.00)
• Sitar (8.00)
• Smoke (8.00)
• Soar (8.00)
• Solar (8.00)
• Sometimes (7.00)
• Sore (8.00)
• Sour (8.00)
• Sow (Scatter) (8.00)
• Specifically (as opposed to pacifically!) (8.00)
• Spectacle (8.00)
• Spectre (ghost) (8.00)
• Sphere (8.00)
• Spinach (8.00)
• Stake (8.00)
• Study/Studying (8.00)
• Sufficient (8.00)
• Suppose (5.67)
• Survey/Surveyed (8.00)
• System(s) (7.00)
• Table (5.80)
• Tack (7.00)
• Tail (8.00)
• Talk (& Walk) (8.00)
• Taramasalata (7.67)
• Tariff (import tax) (5.50)
• Tattoo (8.00)
• Taught (8.00)
• Tea (8.00)
• Teach/Teacher (8.00)
• Tear (Rip) (8.00)
• Technique (7.50)
• Technology (7.29)
• Temerity (8.00)
• Temperament (8.00)
• Temperature (6.33)
• Temporary (6.40)
• Tenant (8.13)
• Tendency (8.20)
• Tension (8.00)
• Terminology (6.00)
• Terrace (5.80)
• Terrible (8.00)
• Terrific (8.00)
• Territory (8.00)
• Testament (8.17)
• Th'o'roughfare (6.44)
• Thames (6.00)
• The Philippines (5.00)
• Theatre (8.43)
• Their & There (8.07)
• Theme (5.86)
• Themselves (6.86)
• Therefore (8.80)
• These (7.00)
• These & Those (6.75)
• They (8.00)
• They're & You're (7.57)
• Thief (6.00)
• Thigh (6.50)
• Though (7.33)
• Thought (8.00)
• Thousand (5.67)
• Threatening (8.00)
• Threshold (8.00)
• Threw (7.50)
• Through (8.88)
• Through, Rough, Tough, Though & Trough (5.00)
• Thumb (7.75)
• Thyme (8.00)
• Ticket (8.00)
• Tickle (6.33)
• Tidy (8.00)
• Tie (8.00)
• tion (words ending in) (5.00)
• Tire/Tired (6.00)
• Titillate (8.00)
• Title (4.50)
• Toaster (5.33)
• Tobacco (8.00)
• Today (8.00)
• Toilets (7.50)
• Tomorrow (7.00)
• Tongue (7.60)
• Tonsillitis (5.50)
• Too (meaning 'very' or 'more than enough') (8.80)
• Torrential (6.57)
• Tortoise (8.00)
• Torture (8.00)
• Total (7.50)
• Tottenham (7.83)
• Touch (8.00)
• Toupee (wig) (8.00)
• Tournament (8.00)
• Towel (8.50)
• Tower (8.00)
• Tractor (8.00)
• Trafficking (8.00)
• Tragedy (7.00)
• Trail (8.50)
• Train (8.00)
• Traitor (6.00)
• Tranquillity (6.00)
• Transferred (8.00)
• Transferring (8.33)
• Transfiguration (6.25)
• Translator (8.00)
• Translucent (Semitransparent/Allowing light to pass through partially) (8.00)
• Transparent (see-through/clear) (4.50)
• Trapeze (8.00)
• Trauma (8.00)
• Travelling/Travelled (8.00)
• Treacherous (8.50)
• Treason (8.50)
• Treasure, Pleasure & Measure (6.83)
• Trenchant - Forthright (8.00)
• Trial (5.20)
• Tried (8.00)
• Triumph (8.00)
• Trophy (8.00)
• Trouble (7.80)
• Trousers (4.67)
• Truck (4.50)
• True (8.00)
• Truly (no 'e') (6.73)
• Truncheon (8.00)
• Truth (8.00)
• Tube (8.00)
• Tudor (8.00)
• Tuesday (7.67)
• Turn/Turning (8.00)
• Turquoise (3.25)
• Twelfth (7.71)
• Two (8.25)
• Typ'i'st (6.00)
• Type (4.00)
• Tyre (7.13)
• Ukulele (7.00)
• Uncharted waters (not Unchartered) (7.00)
• Uncle (7.50)
• Unconscious (8.00)
• Uncontrollable (8.00)
• Undoubtedly (8.50)
• Unequivocal (leaving no doubt) (5.50)
• Unequivocally (clear/leaving no doubt) (8.50)
• Unique (8.50)
• University (4.40)
• Unnecessary (8.00)
• Unorthodox (8.00)
• Unprecedented (novel/no previous example) (8.00)
• Until (8.50)
• Urn (6.80)
• Usable (7.00)
• Usage (7.40)
• Use (7.00)
• Useful (8.00)
• Using (8.00)
• Usual (8.00)
• Usually (8.67)
• Utmost (7.00)
• Vaccine (7.00)
• Vacuum (6.50)
• Vague (8.00)
• Vain (8.00)
• Value (8.00)
• Various (8.00)
• Vegetable (8.00)
• Vehement - Intense feeling/Forceful/Emphatic (7.00)
• Vehicle (7.85)
• Veil (5.00)
• Vein (7.00)
• Vengeance (8.00)
• Veracity (Accuracy/Truth) (8.00)
• Veranda (7.75)
• Vermilion (adj - orange red colour) (6.78)
• Very (8.00)
• Veterinary (7.08)
• Vicarage (8.00)
• Vicinity (8.00)
• Vicious (8.00)
• View (8.00)
• Village (7.67)
• Villain (7.33)
• Vinegar (8.00)
• Vintage (8.50)
• Vinyl (8.00)
• Virtual (8.00)
• Viscious (6.50)
• Viscount (8.00)
• Visible (8.00)
• Vocabulary (7.75)
• Voluntary (6.00)
• Volunteer (7.50)
• Vowel (8.00)
• Vulnerable (8.00)
• Waist (7.00)
• Wait (8.00)
• Walk (8.00)
• Wallet (8.00)
• Wand (8.00)
• Wander (6.22)
• Want (8.00)
• War (8.00)
• Ware (5.67)
• Warrant (7.00)
• Was (6.00)
• Wasp (8.33)
• Watch (8.00)
• Water (8.00)
• We (8.75)
• Weak (7.75)
• Weapon (7.00)
• Wear (8.67)
• Weasel (6.50)
• Weather (8.40)
• Wednesday (8.00)
• Weigh/Weight (7.00)
• Weird (7.33)
• Welcome (8.00)
• Were (8.00)
• Whack (5.86)
• Whale (8.00)
• Wharf (8.00)
• What (8.33)
• Wheat (5.25)
• Wheel (8.50)
• When (7.80)
• Where (8.00)
• Whet (7.33)
• Whether (7.25)
• Which (6.33)
• While (8.00)
• Whine (8.00)
• Whip (7.33)
• Whirl (8.00)
• Whisk (6.17)
• Whisk'e'y (Irish) & Whisk' 'y (Scottish) (6.14)
• Whisker (8.00)
• Whisper (6.00)
• Whistle (8.00)
• White (7.20)
• Whittle (8.00)
• Who (4.00)
• Whole (6.00)
• Why (8.00)
• Wily (7.33)
• Winning (8.00)
• Wire (7.33)
• Witch (8.00)
• With (8.00)
• Withhold (8.13)
• Woken (7.33)
• Womb (8.00)
• Women (7.20)
• Won (8.80)
• Wonder/Wonderful (7.75)
• Wondrous (6.17)
• Wooden (5.00)
• Wool (8.00)
• Woollen (7.50)
• Worcester (7.57)
• Word (8.00)
• Words ending in 'ould' ie Could, Should, Would (6.33)
• Work (8.60)
• World (7.80)
• Worm (8.00)
• Worry (8.00)
• Worse (6.17)
• Wound (e.g a clock) (7.50)
• Wound (injure/injury) (8.00)
• Wrap (6.33)
• Wreath (6.60)
• Wrestle/Wrestling (6.25)
• Wriggle/Wriggly (8.00)
• Wring (7.71)
• Wrist (6.20)
• Write (6.80)
• Writing (7.00)
• Wrong (7.50)
• Xylophone (7.25)
• Yacht (6.50)
• Yearn (7.67)
• Yellow (8.00)
• Young (7.00)
• Youth (6.33)
• Style (5.67)
• Synonym (words that mean the same) (6.67)
• Somersault (8.00)
• Spelling (6.17)
• Sure (8.00)
• Shepherd (8.00)
• Siege (7.60)
• Sikh (5.00)
• Said (8.38)
• Straight/Straighten (8.50)
• Sauce/Saucer (6.43)
• Seize (6.50)
• Such (7.13)
• Secret (3.33)
• Surreptitious (5.67)
• Sympathy (6.00)
• Southern (6.25)
• Senior (5.75)
• Supreme (7.00)
• Symphony (7.50)
• Stupefy (7.00)
• Source (6.80)
• Sociable (7.60)
• Social (6.00)
• Surfeit (5.67)
• Scent (7.00)
• Second (7.17)
• Shove (4.50)
• Saxophone (7.00)
• Soldier (7.60)
• Soap (6.00)
• Sword (8.00)
• Superstitious (7.33)
• Sombre (7.40)
• Schedule (8.50)
• Summary (conclusion) (7.00)
• Studio (8.00)
• Straighteners/Straightening (8.00)
• Sylphlike (8.00)
• Silhouette (6.00)
• Shout (& Loud) (8.67)
• Suddenly (5.60)
• Skiing (8.00)
• Shield (7.60)
• Sandwich (7.83)
• Speak (8.00)
• Small - Petit/Petite (8.00)
• Small (8.00)
• Square (8.00)
• Series (8.00)
• Salient (prominent/striking/conspicuous) (8.50)
• Surrender (4.50)
• Spontaneous (7.80)
• Stare (7.33)
• Stair (7.75)
• Storey (8.25)
• Sole (8.00)
• Soul (4.50)
• Septicaemia (5.33)
• Sentiment (8.00)
• Straw (8.00)
• Stream (8.00)
• Suggest (8.00)
• Syllabus (8.00)
• Secondary (5.75)
• Subpoena (a writ requiring appearance in court to give testimony) (8.00)
• Saviour (8.00)
• Shall (8.00)
• Soliloquy (a speech you make to yourself, normally used as a theatrical device) (8.00)
• Spiral (7.00)
• Swamp (8.00)
• Story (5.00)
• Supply (8.00)
• Super (7.67)
• Susceptible (8.00)
• Sister (8.00)
• Saint (7.00)
• Solution (7.33)
• Steady (6.50)
• Stellar (8.00)
• Spatula (7.50)
• Steak (4.50)
• Scold (harshly criticise) (6.50)
• Scald (8.00)
• Stain (8.00)
• Sir (6.50)
• Staff (6.71)
• Surface (8.50)
• Salt (8.00)
• Season (4.00)
• Session (8.75)
• Strategy (7.00)
• Support (8.00)
• Scary (7.00)
• Shoo-in (7.33)
• Surgeon (8.00)
• Steadily (8.50)
• Scrunched (6.75)
• Serious/Seriously (8.00)
• Sign (8.67)
• Stripes (7.25)
• Suit (7.00)
• Seat (8.00)
• Sponsor (7.50)
• Sergeant (7.00)
• Sacrament (4.00)
• Suede (8.00)
• Struggle (6.75)
• Simile (7.40)
• Suspicious/Suspicion (8.00)
• Scalextric (8.00)
• Slaughter (8.00)
• Swimming (8.00)
• Suite (4.40)
• Supersede (replace, usually in office) (8.70)
• Stationery (7.71)
• Sellotape ('S' not 'C') (5.69)
• Some (8.33)
• School (7.40)
• StileTTo (6.17)
• Surprise (8.00)
• Secretary (8.71)
• Skilful (8.50)
• Separate (8.13)
• Squirrel (7.25)
• Safety (6.50)
• Sacrilege/Sacrilegious (7.00)
• Satellite (8.33)
• Sherbet (6.00)
• Syllable (8.00)
• Spaghetti (8.00)
• Speech (6.86)
• Sentence (8.20)
• Surveillance (6.88)
• Special (8.22)
• Success/Successful (8.18)
• Sacrifice (7.33)
• Signature (8.40)
• Site (7.00)
• Sugar (4.83)
• Salad (7.00)
• Syrup (5.38)
• Scene (8.00)
• Sleight (8.33)
• Splitting (7.40)
• Stomach (8.29)
• Succumb (7.20)
• Salmon (8.05)
• Significant (7.29)
• Salisbury (7.00)
• Statutory (7.00)
• Sorry (6.33)
• Spread (8.00)
• Search (8.00)
• Sew (Stitch) (8.00)
• Strict (8.67)
• Squalor (7.00)
• Son (8.00)
• Suffocate (6.33)
• Swap (5.50)
• Shoulder (7.50)
• Sponge (6.33)
• Symmetry/Symmetrical (8.00)
• Sausage (8.60)
• Saccharin (8.00)
• Soup (6.40)
• Subtle (8.00)
• Sharpening (7.50)
• Sediment (5.00)
• Sheer (7.00)
• Scintillating (5.20)
• Sweat (7.00)
• Sustenance (Food & drink) (6.17)
• Stationary (7.86)
• Subjugate (Bring under control/Conquer) (4.33)
• Scissors (8.00)
• Stopped/Stopping (8.00)
• Scheme (8.00)
• Strength (8.67)
• Science (6.33)
• Supplement (an addition) (8.33)
• Service (8.00)

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