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- There isn't a strong link between good spelling and intelligence, but that doesn't mean spelling doesn't matter.
- Proper spelling makes people perceive you as more intelligent and can increase your chances of getting a job.
- We compiled 27 of the most common spelling mistakes in the English language.
Science has proven that there isn't a strong link between spelling and intelligence.
"The verdict is clear," writes Marilyn vos Savant in "The Art of Spelling: The Method and the Madness." "One does not reliably predict the other."
But that doesn't mean people don't perceive it that way.
On the contrary, if you regularly make spelling mistakes, people are more likely to perceive you as less intelligent and judge your writing more harshly. In the professional world, spelling mistakes on a resume have the same detrimental effect as not having job experience.
So even though spelling is an accurate metric of brainpower, it still matters.
With that in mind, here are 27 of the most misspelled words in English, and how you can remember to get them right.
Tomorrow
Columbia Pictures
"Often to my surprise, I find a lot of well-educated folks will spell 'tomorrow' as 'tommorrow' or 'tommorow,'" writes Quora user Kyle Arean-Raines.
Accommodate
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One of the most commonly misspelled words in the English language, according to data culled from the Oxford English Corpus, "accommodate" has two C's and two M's.
Truly
Columbia Records
"True" ends with an E, but when you turn it into an adverb, it becomes the five-letter "truly."
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