While reading a 100 things we didn't know this time last year on BBC, I learned that "Restaurant" is the most mis-spelled word in search engines. That prompted me to do a research on the subject of misspelled words in search engines, and hence, this post was born.
On Wednesday May 23, 2007, Yahoo! Buzz has published a post on the twenty most misspelled searches on Yahoo! search engine.
- Wallmart (Wal-Mart)
- Rachel Ray (Rachael Ray)
- Amtrack (Amtrak)
- Hillary Duff (Hilary Duff)
- Katherine McPhee (Katharine McPhee)
- Britany Spears (Britney Spears)
- Geneology (Genealogy)
- Jaime Pressley (Jaime Pressly)
- Volkswagon (Volkswagen)
- Wikepedia (Wikipedia)
- William Sonoma (Williams-Sonoma)
- Tatoo (Tattoo)
- Travelosity (Travelocity)
- Elliot Yamin (Elliott Yamin)
- Kiera Knightley (Keira Knightley)
- Kelly Pickler (Kellie Pickler)
- Brittney Spears (Britney Spears)
- Avril Lavinge (Avril Lavigne)
- Rianna (Rihanna)
- Jordan Sparks (Jordin Sparks)
With an exception of people and brand names, Genealogy and Tattoo seem to be often misspelled.
If you are interested in this subject, check out yourDictionary.com because they have a library of the 100 most often mispelled misspelled words in English.
Sidenotes:
I often misspell amateur, apparent, cemetery, conscience, exhilarate, jewelry, liaison, privilege, rhythm, and yes the list goes on. What about you? What are the words that you often misspell?
[tags]misspelled words, spelling, mistakes, search engine, searches, keywords[/tags]
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