Commonly misspelled words: I to O

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I

• ignorance (not “ignorence”)
• immediate
• independent (not “independant”)
• indispensable (not “indispensible”)
• inoculate (not “innoculate”)
• intelligence (not “intelligance”)
• its/its (“its” means something belongs to it, while “it’s” is a contraction of “it is”)

J

• jewelry (not “jewelery”; but in British spelling, use “jeweller” and “jewellery”)
• judgment (“judgement” is allowed in British English for non-legal context)

K

• kernel (the military rank “colonel” is pronounced similarly

L

• leisure (not “liesure”)
• liaison (not “liason”)
• library
• license (not “licence”)
• lightning (not “lightening”)

M

• maintenance (not “maintainance”)
• maneuver (“manoeuvre” in British English)
• medieval (“mediaeval” in British English)
• memento (not “momento”)
• millennium (not “milennium” or “millenium”)
• miniature (not “miniture”)
• mischievous (not “mischeivous” or “mischievuos”)
• misspell (not “mispell”)

N

• neighbor (“neighbour” in British English)
• noticeable

O

• occasionally (not “ocassionally” or “occasionaly”)
• occurrence (not “occurance”)