StrategyWiki:Cleanup project/Misspellings

This is a list of common spelling mistakes found on StrategyWiki, and their appropriate corrections. If you have any free time, feel free to perform a search for any of these spelling mistakes and correct any occurrences you find, spell-checking the rest of each page you correct as well.

#

 * - → – or — (see next two) ✅
 * -- → – (en-dash; &amp;ndash;) ✅
 * --- → — (em-dash; &amp;mdash;) ✅
 * coming soon → stub or sect-stub ✅
 * todo → stub or sect-stub ✅
 * ... → … (horizontal ellipsis; &amp;hellip;) ✅
 * .... → … (horizontal ellipsis; &amp;hellip;) ✅

A

 * acheive → achieve ✅
 * activly → actively ✅
 * aginst → against ✅
 * agressive → aggressive ✅
 * aint → are not ✅ (informal; page may need tagging as drivel)
 * ain't → are not ✅ (informal; page may need tagging as drivel)
 * aircrafts → aircraft ✅
 * alright → all right ✅ (informal; page may need tagging as drivel)
 * alot → a lot ✅
 * anyways → anyway ✅ (informal; page may need tagging as drivel)
 * armys → armies ✅
 * assualt → assault ✅
 * automaticaly → automatically ✅
 * automaticly → automatically ✅
 * availible → available ✅

B

 * backdoor → back door (note that backdoor is an actual word) ✅
 * baddy → baddie (informal; page may need tagging as drivel) ✅
 * baddys → baddies (informal; page may need tagging as drivel) ✅
 * balista → ballista ✅
 * ballistas → ballistae ✅
 * becuase → because
 * bizzare → bizarre ✅
 * bomb-omb → Bob-omb ✅
 * bob-bomb → Bob-omb ✅

C

 * cancelling → canceling (British/English difference)
 * cant → can't ✅
 * catagory → category ✅
 * causeing → causing ✅
 * charachter → character ✅
 * charicter → character ✅
 * cemetary → cemetery ✅
 * chocabo → chocobo ✅
 * chosing → choosing ✅
 * competant → competent ✅
 * comquer → conquer ✅
 * controlls → controls ✅
 * corridoir → corridor ✅
 * crapload → lots (informal; page may need tagging as drivel) ✅
 * cricle → circle ✅

D

 * dammage → damage ✅
 * defalt → default ✅
 * delt → dealt ✅
 * definately → definitely ✅
 * devestating → devastating ✅
 * doesnt → doesn't ✅
 * dont → don't ✅

E

 * enemey → enemy ✅
 * enemys → enemies or enemy's ✅
 * entrace → entrance ✅
 * equiptment → equipment ✅
 * equivelant → equivalent ✅
 * esspecially → especially ✅
 * extremly → extremely ✅
 * execept → except ✅
 * exsept → except ✅

F

 * flys → flies or fly's or flys' ✅
 * foward → forward ✅
 * freind → friend ✅
 * fulfil → fulfill ✅

G

 * gameboy → Game Boy ✅
 * gattling → Gatling ✅
 * gaurd → guard ✅
 * guage → gauge ✅
 * Gyrados → Gyarados ✅

H

 * hovercrafts → hovercraft ✅

I

 * immediatley → immediately ✅
 * ina → in a ✅
 * infront → in front ✅
 * ingame → in-game ✅
 * insted → instead ✅
 * instil → instill ✅
 * invisble → invisible ✅
 * isnt → isn't ✅

J

 * junp → jump ✅

K

 * kat → cat ✅

L

 * labled → labeled ✅
 * lazer → laser ✅
 * levelled → leveled ✅

M

 * maximise → maximize ✅
 * megaman → Mega Man ✅
 * mercinary → mercenary ✅
 * messageing → messaging ✅
 * miscellanious → miscellaneous ✅
 * missle → missile ✅
 * mispelling → misspelling ✅

N

 * neccessary → necessary ✅
 * nogotiate → negotiate ✅
 * nonexistent → non-existent ✅
 * nunchuck → nunchuk ✅ (Note: this only needs to be changed for Wii games that use the nunchuk controller)

O

 * oppisit → opposite ✅
 * opponet → opponent ✅
 * opponennt → opponent ✅
 * oppenant → opponent ✅
 * oppurtunity → opportunity ✅
 * oppurtunities → opportunities ✅
 * opportunites → opportunities ✅
 * outta → out of ✅
 * oviously → obviously ✅

P

 * particuliar → particular ✅
 * persistant → persistent ✅
 * pokemon → Pokémon ✅
 * Pokeball → Poké Ball ✅
 * Pokéball → Poké Ball ✅
 * Poké ball → Poké Ball ✅
 * Poke Ball → Poké Ball ✅
 * pokemart → Pokémart ✅
 * postions → positions ✅
 * powerfull → powerful ✅
 * preform → perform ✅
 * prity → pretty ✅

R

 * recieve → receive ✅
 * recruting → recruiting ✅
 * relativley → relatively ✅
 * remaing → remaining ✅
 * reveiw → review ✅

S

 * seige → siege ✅
 * seperate → separate ✅
 * sheild → shield ✅
 * spys → spies or spy's ✅
 * stratergy → strategy ✅
 * succesfully → successfully ✅
 * suprise → surprise ✅
 * survivabilty → survivability ✅

T

 * teh → the ✅
 * tehn → then ✅
 * tendancy → tendency ✅
 * theese → these ✅
 * theres → there's ✅
 * thingy → thing (informal; page may need tagging as drivel) ✅
 * thn → then ✅
 * thoughought → throughout ✅
 * throughought → throughout ✅
 * tunnes → tunnels ✅
 * till → until (informal; page may need tagging as drivel) ✅
 * torwards → towards ✅

U

 * unaccessable → unaccessible ✅
 * unfortunatly → unfortunately ✅
 * untill → until ✅
 * usefull → useful ✅
 * useable → usable ✅

V

 * villan → villain ✅
 * villian → villain ✅

W

 * wanna → want to ✅
 * westish → westward ✅
 * wich → witch or which ✅
 * whats → what's ✅
 * wittness → witness ✅

Y

 * youll → you'll ✅