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A List of Easily Confused Words

Easily confused words

Here is a list of pairs of words that commonly cause people problems. These words easily cause confusion because their spelling and pronunciation may be similar although they have different meanings.

Commonly Confused Words
Accept and except
Advice and advise
Affect and effect
Aid and aide
Allusion and illusion
Alright and all right
Altogether and all together
Amoral and immoral
Aural and oral
Canvas and canvass
Censor and censure
Diffuse and defuse
Discreet and discrete
Disinterested and uninterested
Elicit and illicit
Envelop and envelope
Licence and license
Lie and lay
Loath and loathe
Lose or loose
Story and storey
There, their, they're

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