Confusing Words
Some words are often confused with other words. These confusing words, when
misused by writers, may lead to embarrassing errors. Consider the word dessert
in the following sentence: The camel crossed the dessert. The confusion of
dessert and desert is a common spelling error that conjures up an unusual
picture. More confusing word pairs are listed below.
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accept/except |
eminent/imminent |
| access/excess |
empire/umpire |
| adapt/adept |
envelop/envelope |
| advice/advise |
expand/expend |
| affect/effect |
farther/further |
| alley/ally |
foreword/forward |
| all ready/already |
formally/formerly |
| all together/altogether |
later/latter |
| anecdote/antidote |
lay/lie |
| angel/angle |
lend/loan |
| any way/anyway |
loose/lose |
| bazaar/bizarre |
massage/message |
| beside/besides |
moral/morale |
| biannual/biennial |
of/off |
| bibliography/biography |
pastor/pasture |
| breath/breathe |
perfect/prefect |
| command/commend |
personal/personnel |
| confidant/confident |
picture/pitcher |
| conscience/conscious |
precede/proceed |
| cooperation/corporation |
preposition/proposition |
| costume/custom |
quiet/quite |
| decent/descent |
recent/resent |
| desert/dessert |
than/then |
| device/devise |
thorough/through |
| emigrate/immigrate |
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