The most misspelled words

The English words whose wrong spellings are searched most on Bing in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), each ranked by all its wrong forms together: solitaire leads with about 79,010 searches a month, most often as solitare. A search is counted whatever it is for, so a misspelled game or product name typed to find it counts too (solitare is mostly the card game). The analysis of every measured wrong spelling is in the study.

The wrong spellings searched most among them

solitaresolitaire: a missing i79,010 searches a month

calculatercalculator: e in place of o19,930 searches a month

recieptreceipt: e and i swapped14,940 searches a month

tumericturmeric: a missing r9,540 searches a month

recievedreceived: e and i swapped7,950 searches a month

refridgeratorrefrigerator: an extra d6,700 searches a month

matressmattress: a missing t5,730 searches a month

vaccumvacuum: c in place of u5,640 searches a month

cuckholdcuckold: an extra h5,330 searches a month

seperateseparate: e in place of a5,090 searches a month

Source: Bing searches in the United States, the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

The 100 words misspelled most in search

#	Word	Top wrong spelling, a month	All wrong, a month	Share
1	solitaire	solitare 79,010	79,010	about 1 in 14
2	calculator	calculater 19,930	25,910	about 1 in 105
3	receipt	reciept 14,940	14,940	about 1 in 12
4	vacuum	vaccum 5,640	9,990	about 2 in 10
5	turmeric	tumeric 9,540	9,540	about 3 in 10
6	received	recieved 7,950	9,480	about 3 in 10
7	maintenance	maintence 2,470	8,830	about 2 in 10
8	jewelry	jewlery 4,620	8,100	about 1 in 10
9	restaurant	resturant 2,890	7,040	about 1 in 10
10	refrigerator	refridgerator 6,700	6,700	about 1 in 20
11	amateur	amature 3,500	6,360	about 2 in 10
12	mattress	matress 5,730	5,730	about 1 in 10
13	separate	seperate 5,090	5,390	about 3 in 10
14	accommodations	accomodations 4,630	5,330	about 2 in 10
15	cuckold	cuckhold 5,330	5,330	about 3 in 10
16	rhythm	rythm 3,170	5,310	about 3 in 10
17	available	avaliable 1,450	5,220	about 2 in 10
18	liaison	liason 3,810	5,190	about 4 in 10
19	definitely	definetly 1,940	5,070	about 2 in 10
20	accommodation	accomodation 4,280	4,790	about 1 in 10
21	receive	recieve 4,300	4,730	about 3 in 10
22	millennium	millenium 4,540	4,640	about 4 in 10
23	celsius	celcius 4,610	4,610	about 3 in 10
24	February	febuary 2,650	4,580	about 2 in 10
25	avocado	avacado 4,490	4,490	about 1 in 10
26	business	buisness 2,820	4,490	about 1 in 10
27	fascism	facism 4,200	4,300	about 2 in 10
28	ophthalmologist	opthamologist 2,410	4,250	about 1 in 10
29	fascist	facist 4,230	4,230	about 3 in 10
30	square	sqaure 3,800	3,800	about 1 in 51
31	academy	acadamy 3,440	3,730	about 1 in 33
32	ophthalmology	opthamology 1,980	3,550	about 2 in 10
33	tomorrow	tommorow 1,580	3,460	about 2 in 10
34	mortgage	mortage 3,300	3,300	about 1 in 21
35	caterpillar	catepillar 1,030	3,250	about 1 in 10
36	address	adress 2,540	3,240	about 1 in 10
37	abscess	abcess 3,210	3,210	about 2 in 10
38	background	backround 2,820	3,160	about 1 in 20
39	deodorant	deoderant 3,150	3,150	about 1 in 10
40	pruritus	pruritis 3,060	3,060	about 2 in 10
41	thread	thred 2,980	2,980	about 3 in 10
42	access	acess 2,940	2,940	about 1 in 14
43	genealogy	geneology 2,830	2,830	about 3 in 10
44	aspirin	asprin 2,700	2,700	about 2 in 10
45	loratadine	loratidine 2,680	2,680	about 1 in 10
46	warranty	warrenty 2,550	2,670	about 1 in 14
47	circuit	circut 2,410	2,600	about 2 in 10
48	referral	referal 2,560	2,560	about 1 in 10
49	hamster	hampster 2,530	2,530	about 1 in 14
50	recommend	reccomend 1,120	2,520	about 3 in 10
51	prescription	perscription 2,470	2,470	about 1 in 16
52	Wednesday	wensday 1,510	2,390	about 1 in 18
53	adamant	adament 2,310	2,310	about 2 in 10
54	personal	personel 2,060	2,310	about 2 in 10
55	achieve	acheive 1,440	2,290	about 2 in 10
56	exercise	excercise 1,060	2,290	about 1 in 10
57	guarantee	guarentee 900	2,270	about 3 in 10
58	assessment	assesment 2,250	2,250	about 1 in 11
59	reference	refrence 940	2,240	–
60	atorvastatin	atorvastin 1,140	2,220	about 1 in 25
61	siege	seige 2,180	2,210	about 2 in 10
62	colleague	collegue 1,560	2,150	about 2 in 10
63	monitor	moniter 2,140	2,140	about 1 in 31
64	environment	enviroment 1,050	2,110	about 1 in 10
65	tongue	tounge 2,110	2,110	about 2 in 10
66	licence	lisence 1,200	2,100	about 3 in 10
67	unfortunately	unfortunatly 660	2,100	about 1 in 12
68	questionnaire	questionaire 2,070	2,070	about 2 in 10
69	benefits	benifits 2,050	2,050	about 1 in 21
70	syphilis	syphillis 1,930	2,050	about 1 in 10
71	experience	experiance 840	2,030	about 1 in 10
72	shield	sheild 2,010	2,010	about 1 in 10
73	visible	visable 2,010	2,010	about 1 in 13
74	tomato	tomatoe 1,970	1,970	about 1 in 10
75	assure	asure 1,960	1,960	about 4 in 10
76	chief	cheif 1,960	1,960	about 2 in 10
77	obsession	obession 1,950	1,950	about 1 in 16
78	receiving	recieving 1,670	1,950	about 3 in 10
79	opportunity	oppurtunity 760	1,930	about 1 in 10
80	surprise	suprise 1,570	1,920	about 2 in 10
81	toilet	toliet 1,910	1,910	about 1 in 35
82	pursue	persue 1,900	1,900	about 3 in 10
83	tariff	tarrif 1,050	1,900	about 3 in 10
84	absence	absense 1,190	1,890	about 1 in 10
85	tattoo	tatoo 1,880	1,880	about 1 in 11
86	discover	dicover 1,280	1,870	about 1 in 171
87	gauge	guage 1,860	1,860	about 2 in 10
88	alcohol	alchol 930	1,850	about 1 in 13
89	satellite	satelite 1,420	1,850	about 2 in 10
90	safety	saftey 1,260	1,830	about 1 in 10
91	interest	intrest 1,610	1,810	about 2 in 10
92	preferred	prefered 950	1,810	about 2 in 10
93	marshmallow	marshmellow 1,800	1,800	about 2 in 10
94	potato	potatoe 1,770	1,790	about 1 in 10
95	acupuncture	accupuncture 1,770	1,770	about 1 in 13
96	people	peopel 1,180	1,760	about 1 in 153
97	synopsis	synopsys 1,760	1,760	about 2 in 10
98	license	liscense 1,590	1,750	about 1 in 38
99	caffeine	caffiene 880	1,740	about 1 in 10
100	library	libary 1,740	1,740	about 1 in 67

Source: Bing searches in the United States, the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Share: the wrong spellings' searches as a part of all searches for the word in either form (– where the right spelling has no figure of its own). Wrong spellings are drawn from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary; a candidate is kept only when people search or write it.