Most misspelt words

[amalgamate]

Most Misspelt Words in English Language Revealed

The word "definitely" is the most often misspelt word in English language. A new study carried out by the online market research company OnePoll :: Homepage, found that "definitely" is often written by Britons as "definately".

The list continuous with the words "sacrilegious" and "indict" that are the second and third most misspelt words respectively. The study of 5,000 people found that 6 out of 10 surveyed were embarrassed to discover that they have a poor spelling skills. The research also discovered that 57 percent of people often judge others on their spelling and 42 percent declare that those people who have problems with their spelling are dumb.

A spokesperson for OnePoll :: Homepage said: "Considering people judge others, yet don't like their intelligence to be judged by how well they spell, they should up their game and pick up a dictionary."

The words "mortgage" and "speech" did not make it into the top 20 most misspelt words list, but still 9 percent of the polled spelt "morgauge" and 7 percent spelt "speach". One of the reasons for poor spelling is text messaging and 'text speak'.

"It's clear the role technology is having on our lives is contributing to the downfall of our ability to spell. Computers and mobile phones which spell words for us have left us with a lazy attitude towards spelling," says the company's spokesperson.

The study found that 78 percent of adults said women are usually better at spelling than men.

Here is the list of the Top 20 most commonly misspelt words:

1. Definitely

2. Sacrilegious

3. Indict

4. Manoeuvre

5. Bureaucracy

6. Broccoli

7. Phlegm

8. Prejudice

9. Consensus

10. Unnecessary

11. Supersede

12. Questionnaire

13. Lieutenant

14. Entrepreneur

15. Connoisseur

16. Inoculate

17. Particularly

18. Liquify

19. Parallel

20. Conscience

[amalgamate]

I am definetely guilty of particularley many unnesessary spelling errors... bbbbut don't be predjudice!- indite the teachers that ran the unsucessful education programs in those sleesy high schools!

[eyad]

i think i usually find the problem of the words:

- Professional

- curious

- previous

- college

& others not in mind right now...

[Cheba_Mami]

collegues colleges collegae

[Felicity]

soo many words i get wrong! I also struggle with the word 'beautiful'. too many vowels.

[amalgamate]

i wish there were some miracle 'learn to spell' lessons online where we could fix our rediculous (ridiculous) spelling errors effortlessly.

I wouldn't mind if it were meant for kids...

[Felicity]

spell check in MS Office Word...