I put a few (not of these) on a Facebook post once, and got a bunch of comments with others' most hated, mostly very common ones. I'm not by any means trying to list the most common or simplest spelling errors people make, nor the ones that drive me crazy(er). These are just a few that I've run across lately, most of which (except for the last two) strike me as a matter of people overreaching their vocabularies:
- adverse for averse
- regiment for regimen
- unchartered for uncharted
- peek or peak for pique
- access for assess
- aloud for allowed
- it's for its (which I'm including only since I have done it with annoying frequency, usually when I'm in a rush or teal deer-ing)
- pretty much anything my third or (honorary) fourth daughters misspell in every other FB post. Especially sware for swear.
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