Find the most prolific misspelling

Is ‘independant’ a valid spelling in its own right or not?

If not, then those were genuine typos - Google doesn’t look at parts of words.

Good one, Aro!

I don’t know.

Searched the web for viagara.

Results 1 - 10 of about 19,100. Search took 0.09 seconds.

Darn!

> infomation : 517,000
> managment : 396,000
> recieve : 522,000
> wierd : 340,000

Searched the web for disscuss. Results 1 - 10 of about 4,960
Searched the web for nonsence. Results 1 - 10 of about 11,100
Searched the web for dissappear. Results 1 - 10 of about 17,800
Searched the web for dissapear. Results 1 - 10 of about 33,700.
Searched the web for arguement. Results 1 - 10 of about 75,500

There’s a lot of it out there, eh?

If you type in milenium, it even suggests millenium. :slight_smile:

Here’s a list of common spelling mistakes.
Although seperate leads all of these (as previously posted by Sparrow)

I call “foul” on this one too, since there were many products/companies/etc. intentionally using the misspelled version of “millennium” in the years before Y2K. This even included a major car manufacturer (Japanese I believe, but I can’t remember off the top of my head which one exactly).

Yeah, I agree too. (Even if it was my last ditch attempt to ‘win’)

It’s only a foul if three or more of those valid spellings happen to appear on the first page of the search results - dem’s da roolz.

ect. pulls 858,000 hits, but apparently ECT is a valid abbreviation for a whole lot of things, so its hard to say how many actual misspellings this accounts for.

Searched English pages for cemetary. Results 1 - 10 of about 143,000
Searched English pages for neice. Results 1 - 10 of about 41,100
Searched English pages for occassion. Results 1 - 10 of about 171,000
Searched English pages for neccessary. Results 1 - 10 of about 87,800
Searched English pages for licence. Results 1 - 10 of about 1,520,000

Is ‘licence’ a valid variant spelling of license? Merriam-Webster online dictionary doesn’t list one.

In keeping with the spirit of this contest I vote we call this activity ‘Googlewacking’. :smiley:

Ooh, Mangetout’s last post gave me an idea:

Searched the web for warez. Results 1 - 10 of about 11,400,000

But I’m sure this will probably be challenged on the same basis as ‘millenium’. Still beats that misspelling at it’s own game though.

Artic --> Results 1 - 10 of about 249,000

Searched the web for wierd. Results 1 - 10 of about 340,000. Search took 0.08 seconds.

alot Results 1 - 10 of about 1,790,000

What does warez misspell? Isn’t that a valid name for a product.

Well, it misspells “wares”, although “warez” has been used by hackers and phreakers and the like for a long, long time…

i came up with a good solution to this. the new millennium started on January 1st, 2001. The new millenium started on Januart 1st, 2000. :cool: