The list which follows contains sets of words which are commonly confused, either by mistaking words which sound alike, or by typographical errors. Try substituting the correct word in a sentence for one of its common confusions.
| accept except | adapt adopt | advice advise | ||
| affect effect | aid aide | alley ally | ||
| altar alter | among between | amount number | ||
| begin being | bloc block | born borne | ||
| bough bow | brake break | breach breech | ||
| buy by | cent sent | car can | ||
| chord cord | cite sight site | complement compliment | ||
| compose comprise | consul council counsel | corps corpse | ||
| country county | cue queue | desert dessert | ||
| dual duel | eminent immanent imminent | fewer less | ||
| feel fill | out our | an a | ||
| flair flare | flounder founder | forceful forcible | ||
| foreword forward | fortuitous fortunate | hangar hanger | ||
| from form | good goods | hear here | ||
| I me | idle idol | its it's | ||
| lay lie | lead led | loose lose | ||
| miner minor | moral morale | naval navel | ||
| ordinance ordnance | palate palatte pallet | passed past | ||
| peace piece | pedal peddle | persecute prosecute | ||
| perspective prospective | plain plane | precede proceed | ||
| principal principle | quiet quite | raise rise | ||
| role roll | shear sheer | than then | ||
| their there they're | to too two | weather whether | ||
| who's whose | your you're |