Words Spellcheck Doesn’t Flag (Continued)

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Several months ago, I posted a list of commonly misspelled words most spelling checkers don’t flag because the misspellings are legitimate words themselves. They’re just not the word you were going for.

Recently, an online discussion among my fellow editors provided me with a wealth of new words to add to that list. So, with my thanks to my colleagues around the world, I’ve listed the new additions here for everyone to access freely. Enjoy.
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*At the bottom of this post, I’ve included links to download the PDF versions of the list of these new additions, the original list, and a combined list of all of the words I’ve gathered so far.

Slips of the Fingers

• Actives / Activities
• Alternate / Alternative
• Appraise / Apprise
• Averse / Adverse
• Breath / Breathe
• Brian / Brain
• Charger / Changer
• Check / Cheek
• Climactic / Climatic
• Coarse / Course
• Compete / Complete
• Complain / Compliant
• Conservation / Conversation
• Contact / Contract
• Daily / Dally
• Dairy / Diary
• Definite / Defiant
• Discuss / Discus
• Diverse / Divers
• Does / Dose / Doze
• Filling / Filing / Fling
• He / The
• Inquires / Inquiries

• Latte / Latite / Late
• Latter / Letter
• Loath / Loathe
• Lunch / Launch
• Manage / Mange
• Medical / Medial
• Morality / Mortality
• Or / For
• Our / Out
• Pose / Impose
• Pray / Prey
• Prescribe / Proscribe
• Radio / Ratio / Ration
• Sacred / Scared
• Sever / Severe / Serve
• Sing / Sign
• Sooth / Soothe
• Stain / Strain
• Threat / Thread / Tread
• Threat / Treat
• Traverse / Transverse
• World / Word (Bank)​

User Confusion

• A Part / Apart
• All right / Alright
• Amoral / Immoral
• Any Way / Anyway
• Are / Our
• Disperse / Disburse
• Dryer / Drier
• En Route / On Route / In Route

• Enquire / Inquire
• Every Day / Everyday
• Faint / Feint
• Judea / Judaea
• Lead / Led
• Route / Root
• Taught / Taut
• Track / Tract

Truly Funny (i.e., Embarrassing) Errors

• Angus / Anus
• Annals / Anals
• Duck / Fuck
• Insect / Incest
• Lost / Lust

• Organism / Orgasm
• Pantry / Panty
• Prostrate / Prostate
• Shift / Shit

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Original List of Words
New Additions
Combined List

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​Rebecca Miller is a professional copyeditor and general fan of all things having to do with the written word and the English language.
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