The Most Commonly Misspelled Words in the US, REVEALED: “Calendar” and “Niece” Top Misspellings List – So How Many Of These Mistakes Are YOU Guilty?
- If you’re having trouble spelling words like “calendar” and “niece,” you’re not alone — hundreds of thousands of Americans make misspellings every month
- Using Google data, Quillbot discovered the most commonly misspelled words in the US and revealed how often people searched them incorrectly
- Quillbot reported that “calendar” is the word most people struggle with, with 257,000 Americans Googling the word “calendar” every month instead
- The word “Arctic” came in second, with 87,000 people accidentally dropping the first C from the word and searching for “Arctic” each month
- Experts blamed the population’s poor spelling on tools like spell check and autocorrect, both of which are prominent in modern life
If you’re struggling to spell words like “calendar,” “arctic,” and “niece,” you’re certainly not alone — as new data from Quillbot has shown hundreds of thousands of Americans make misspellings every month.
Using Google search data, the grammar checker site uncovered what the most commonly misspelled words are in the US – and revealed exactly how many times people searched for the words incorrectly each month.
According to Quillbot, “calendar” is the word most people struggle with, with the company revealing that every month 257,000 Google users search for the word “calendar” instead.
The word “arctic” came in second, with 87,000 Americans accidentally dropping the first C and spelling “artic” each month.
If you’re having trouble spelling words like “calendar” and “niece,” you’re not alone — as Quillbot revealed thousands of Americans make misspellings every month (stock photo)
Based on the data, it appears that a common mistake people make when it comes to spelling is missing the I and E in words like niece, receive, believe, and besiege confound.
Other commonly misspelled words are “separate,” “rhythm,” “occurred,” “congratulations,” “until,” and “licence.”
It appears that many Americans also struggle to spell some common foods like broccoli and spaghetti — as the words “brocoli” and “spagetti” are searched 13,000 times each month — while the state of Connecticut also makes the list with 20,000 misspellings a month was standing.
Experts blamed the population’s poor spelling on tools like spell check and autocorrect, both of which are prominent in modern life.
“Many Americans struggle with spelling, especially in the digital age of spell checking,” said a spokesperson for QuillBot.
“However, if you sometimes get your letters mixed up, there is something you can do to improve your spelling.
The most frequently misspelled words
“More reading can improve your spelling. That’s because you’re looking at the letters on a page.
“Writing more often can also help with spelling. Try using a dictionary any time you think you’ve misspelled a word, and then highlight the word.
“You’ll start to notice an improvement in your spelling, especially on the words we all struggle with.”
Back in 2009, a study of 2,000 US adults found that one in four admitted to having trouble spelling common words – and it’s only gotten worse since then.
In 2015, a UK survey found that only two-thirds of adults had the level of spelling expected of primary school children.
Participants were asked to spell 35 different words from SAT tests over the past three years.
1,000 adults between the ages of 16 and 77 were tested, and only 67 percent made it to level four, while less than half (44 percent) made it to level five; 15 percent of the participating adults did not even reach level three, which is below the level expected of children as young as 11 years old.