Commonly misspelled words: P to W

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P

• pastime (not “pasttime”)
• perseverance (not “perseverance”)
• personnel (not “personell”)
• playwright (not “playwrite”)
• possession (not “possesion” or “posession”)
• precede (not “preceed”)
• principal (not “principle” if you are referring to a person or using it as an adjective)
• privilege
• pronunciation (not “pronounciation”)
• publicly (not “publickly”)

Q

• questionnaire (not “questionaire”)

R

• receipt (not “reciept”)
• receive (not “recieve”)
• recommend (not “recomend”)
• referred (not “refered”)
• reference (not “referrence”)
• relevant (not “relevent”)
• restaurant
• rhyme
• rhythm

S

• schedule (not “skedule”)
• separate (not “seperate”)
• sergeant (not “sargent”)
• supersede (not “supercede” or “superceed”)

T

• their/they're/there (possessive form is “their” while “they’re” is a contraction of “they are”)
• threshold (not “threshhold”)
• twelfth
• tyranny (not “tiranny” or “tyrany”)

U

• until (not “untill”)

V

• vacuum (not “vacuem”)

W

• weather (not “wether”)
• weird (not “wierd”)