Commonly Confused Words

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If you’re one of our regular readers you’ll be familiar with articles on easy-to-confuse words, but every now and then we like to share a recap for our new subscribers.

Here is a list of all our Commonly Confused Words articles:

A vs. An
Accept vs. Except
Adverse vs. Averse
Affect vs. Effect
Air vs. Heir
Aisle vs. Isle
All together vs. Altogether
Allowed vs. Aloud
Allude vs. Elude
Allusion vs. Illusion
Alternate vs. Alternative
Are vs. Our vs. Hour
Ascent vs. Assent
Assume vs. Presume
Balmy vs. Barmy
Bated vs. Baited
Bath vs. Bathe
Bear vs. Bare
Been vs. Gone
Berry vs. Bury
Biannual vs. Biennial
Biweekly vs. Fortnightly vs. Semi-weekly
Board vs. Bored
Borne vs. Born
Borrow vs. Lend
Bought vs. Brought
Bow vs. Bough
Break vs. Brake
Broach vs. Brooch
By vs. Bye vs. Buy
Can vs. May
Capital vs. Capitol
Cent vs. Scent vs. Sent
Cereal vs. Serial
Cite vs. Site vs. Sight
Click vs. Clique
Coarse vs. Course
Complacent vs. Complaisant
Complement vs. Compliment
Conscience vs. Conscious
Council vs. Counsel
Creak vs. Creek
Cue vs. Queue
Curb vs. Kerb
Dear vs. Deer
Defuse vs. Diffuse
Desert vs. Dessert
Device vs. Devise
Discreet vs. Discrete
Disinterested vs. Uninterested
Draw vs. Drawer
Dual vs. Duel
E.g. vs. I.e.
Elicit vs. Illicit
Enquire vs. Inquire
Ensure vs. Insure
Everyday vs. Every Day
Fair vs. Fare
Father vs. Farther vs. Further
Faun vs. Fawn
Flair vs. Flare
Flaunt vs. Flout
Flour vs. Flower
For vs. Fore vs. Four
Hair vs. Hare
Heal vs. Heel
Hear vs. Here
Hoard vs. Horde
Infer vs. Imply
Knight vs. Night
Less vs. Fewer
Lie vs. Lay
Loan vs. Lone
Lose vs. Loose
May vs. Might
Maybe vs. May be
Meat vs. Meet
Moot vs. Mute
New vs. Knew
Oar vs. Or vs. Ore
Palate vs. Palette
Pair vs. Pare vs. Pear
Passed vs. Past
Peace vs. Piece
Perspective vs. Prospective
Poll vs. Pole
Pore vs. Pour
Precede vs. Proceed
Prescribe vs. Proscribe
Prophecy vs. Prophesy
Quiet vs. Quite
Rain vs. Reign vs. Rein
Real vs. Reel
Right vs. Rite vs. Write
Sea vs. See
Shore vs. Sure
Sleigh vs. Slay
Son vs. Sun
Stationary vs. Stationery
Suite vs. Sweet
Tail vs. Tale
Than vs. Then
Threw vs. Through vs. Thorough
To vs. Too vs. Two
Waist vs. Waste
Wait vs. Weight
Weather vs. Whether vs. Wether
Which vs. Witch
Who vs. Whom
Who's vs. Whose
Yolk vs. Yoke

21 Sep 2020
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