
Dozens of homonyms, words that sound like other words but are spelled differently, are sometimes confused for their near doppelgängers.
This post lists and defines twenty-five frequently confused word pairs, in which the first word is usually used mistakenly in place of the second one. (Definitions for words are simplified and not comprehensive.)
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Good post! Another good one is capitol/capital (the seat of Congress in DC/many meanings related to importance, or the term for the form of the first letter of the first word of a sentence).
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Yep – Those are good ones, Zoe 😃
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