User:Wmahan/Most common misspellings

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Here's a list of the 100 common misspellings that occur most frequently in Wikipedia:

Updated April 17, 2004

Misspelling Number of occurrences
occured 144
descendents 84
refered 83
recieved 77
goverment 73
occuring 72
offical 68
unneccessary 58
transfered 52
seperate 47
millenium 45
succesful 41
accomodate 41
childrens 41
Portugese 40
teh 36
independant 35
womens 33
untill 31
descendent 30
accomodation 30
millenia 29
preceeding 29
recieve 29
commited 28
Pharoah 27
wich 27
independance 26
strived 26
throught 26
sherif 26
preceeded 25
seige 25
seperated 25
prominant 25
penninsula 24
possesion 24
reknowned 24
similiar 24
existance 23
pronounciation 23
particularily 23
refering 23
begining 23
personel 22
posession 22
ther 22
Malcom 22
assasination 21
cemetary 21
payed 21
aquired 20
futher 20
noteable 19
thier 19
philospher 19
recieves 19
percieved 18
agressive 18
Phillipines 17
heterogenous 17
orginal 17
torpedos 17
superceded 17
avaliable 17
intially 16
occurence 16
targetted 16
Newyorker 16
subsidary 16
amoung 16
recieving 15
intial 15
suceeded 15
commisioned 15
comissioned 14
univeristy 14
useable 14
accidently 14
villian 14
appearence 14
layed 13
persistant 13
sideral 13
adminstration 13
miniscule 13
acheived 13
Britian 13
lightyear 13
occassionally 13
profesor 13
religous 13
Ukranian 13
beseiged 13
hace 13
occassions 12
todays 12
febuary 12
internation 12
succesfully 12