Confusing words
These are the pairs that trip up careful writers: words that sound alike, look alike, or get mixed up in speech. Each page gives the rule, the difference, and examples you can check your sentence against.
A
- Absense Or Absence
- Ad Or Add
- Adapter or Adaptor
- Addition Or Edition
- Adsorb Or Absorb
- Advise Or Advice
- Afflict Or Inflict
- Afterwards Or Afterward
- Along vs. Alongside
- Altar Or Alter
- Although Vs. Though
- Ambience Or Ambiance
- Among Or Amongst
- Anual Or Annual
- Arial or Aerial
- Astronomy Or Astrology
- At Least or Atleast
- Attorney Or Lawyer
- Attornies Or Attorneys
B
C
- Calendar or Calender
- Cancelation Or Cancellation
- Cappuccino Or Latte
- Caramel or Carmel
- Caregiver Or Caretaker
- Catalogue Or Catalog
- Cavalry Or Calvary
- Cemetery Vs. Graveyard
- Center Or Centre
- Challenge Or Challange
- Check-In Or Check In
- Cheff Or Chef
- Choosing or Chosing
- Climatic Or Climactic
- Co-Operate Or Cooperate
- Collaborate Or Corroborate
- Collectable Or Collectible
- Colombia Or Columbia
- Comprise Or Compose
- Consent or Assent
- Consignor Or Consignee
- Consistent Vs. Constant
- Continuous Or Continual
- Convex Or Concave
- Copywritten Or Copyrighted
- Counsel Or Council
- Crayfish Or Crawfish
- Cubical Or Cubicle
- Current Or Currant
- Cymbal Or Symbol
D
E
F
G
H
I
- I Or Me
- Immanent Or Imminent
- Imminent Or Eminent
- In Person Or In-Person
- In Process Or In Progress
- In Regard To Or In Regards To
- Inbetween or In Between
- Incite Or Insight
- Inclosed Or Enclosed
- Inequity Or Inequality
- Infact Or In Fact
- Inflammable Or Flammable
- Intact Or In Tact
- Inter Vs. Intra
- Into or In To
- Invision Or Envision