Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings

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WP:LCM

The lists of common

Wikipedia:Typo
for information on and coordination of spellchecking work.

Note that not all occurrences of these spellings will be misspellings: if they are in song titles, for instance, they must be left as the song writer intended (but it is worth checking back to sources); if they are in

false positives
.

Keep in mind some words could be corrected to multiple different possibilities and some are names of brands, songs, or products. These are just the most common. Please don't delete a misspelling from this page just because it causes

comment them out. This can be done by changing the initial asterisk (*) on a line into a colon
(:). Doing this will make it easy to put potential spelling errors back if you want to re-run a check for them at some future time.

A misspelling should occur in Wikipedia at least once a year to be considered "common" and therefore have a place in this list. If you know a certain misspelling has not occurred in the past year, you should delete it from the list to reduce clutter and make the lists easier to use.

When adding a misspelling, it is a good idea to also add all

Alphabetize
according to the misspelling.

Note that spellings sometimes vary between varieties of English, notably between

Commonwealth English. Since Wikipedia accepts all variant spellings, please refer to American and British English spelling differences
.

Many users have found that using Google to search for misspelled words is more efficient than Wikipedia, such as this Google search.

Alternatively you can search a recent database dump for typos in a few minutes using User:Bluemoose/DataBaseSearchTool. This works best when the database is not very old.

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Homophones | Repetitions | Grammar and miscellaneous

For machines – machine-readable version (condensed)

format:

  • misspelling (click for Wikipedia search); (correct spelling)

See also