There’s no denying it, in this current day and age, there’s a lot less need to be a good speller.
With the abundance of apps on array as well as built in spell-checkers, even the best of us get a bit lax with our spelling.
And no one bears witness to our sloppy spelling mistakes quite like Google.
But some words seem to confuse time and time again, as evidenced by the top 11 misspelt words, according to research from TheKnowledgeAcademy.
Can you spell them?
Most commonly misspelt words
According to research from UK training company TheKnowledgeAcademy, ‘separate’ was the most misspelt word in the last month, with 92,000 people getting it wrong.
Here are the others:
Separate – mispelled 92,000 times
Zucchini – mispelled 60,400 times
Questionnaire – mispelled 46,000 times
Potato – mispelled 38,000 times
Diarrhoea– mispelled 20,100 times
Definitely – mispelled 18,800 times
Embarrass – mispelled 15,000 times
Conscience – mispelled 14,600 times
Unnecessary – mispelled 11,960 times
Bureaucracy – mispelled 5,750 times
Manoeuvre – mispelled 1,900 times
We’ll forgive you for getting zucchini wrong as in British English, it is of course, referred to as a courgette.
How did you fare in the quiz?
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