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.

Before making the change, try to verify that the word is not correctly spelled. In some cases, the incorrect spelling may appear in-game and should not be changed, while other cases may involve a regional spelling difference.

#

 * - → – 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 ✅
 * agains → against ✅
 * 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 ✅
 * airbourne → airborne ✅
 * alright → all right ✅ (informal; page may need tagging as drivel)
 * alot → a lot ✅
 * amulance → ambulance ✅
 * anohter → another ✅
 * anyways → anyway (note: "anyways" is a variant) ✅ (informal; page may need tagging as drivel)
 * appart → apart ✅
 * approch → approach ✅
 * approack → approach ✅
 * aquiring → acquiring ✅
 * armys → armies ✅
 * asap → as soon as possible
 * a.s.a.p. → as soon as possible
 * assualt → assault ✅
 * aswell → as well or a swell ✅
 * aswel → as well or a swell ✅
 * 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 ✅
 * breif → brief ✅
 * burried → buried ✅
 * bungie → bungee or Bungie Studios if it is that specific company name. ✅

C

 * cancelling → canceling (British/English difference)
 * cafe → café (note: "cafe" is the US spelling) ✅
 * caft → craft ✅
 * canceled → cancelled (British/American difference)
 * cant → can't (note: "cant" is a real word with a different meaning) ✅
 * catagory → category ✅
 * causeing → causing ✅
 * channeling → channelling ✅
 * charachter → character ✅
 * charicter → character ✅
 * cemetary → cemetery ✅
 * chocabo → chocobo ✅
 * chosing → choosing ✅
 * collecion → collection ✅
 * colums → columns ✅
 * competant → competent ✅
 * comquer → conquer ✅
 * controlls → controls ✅
 * corridoir → corridor ✅
 * crapload → lots (informal; page may need tagging as drivel) ✅
 * cricle → circle ✅
 * crystl → crystal ✅
 * crystle → crystal ✅
 * curcuit → Circuit ✅

D

 * dammage → damage ✅
 * defalt → default ✅
 * delt → dealt ✅
 * definately → definitely ✅
 * discernable → discernible (regional spelling variant)
 * dispite → despite ✅
 * destory → destroy ✅
 * destoryed → destroyed ✅
 * devasted → devastated ✅
 * devestating → devastating ✅
 * devistating → devastating ✅
 * dieing → dying ✅
 * disapeared → disappeared ✅
 * disired → desired ✅
 * dispair → despair ✅
 * dissappears → disappears ✅
 * doesnt → doesn't ✅
 * dogde → dodge ✅
 * dont → don't ✅

E

 * ecstacy → ecstasy ✅
 * ect → etc.
 * eigth → eight or eighth ✅
 * enemey → enemy ✅
 * enemys → enemies or enemy's ✅
 * entrace → entrance ✅
 * enviroment → environment ✅
 * equiptment → equipment ✅
 * equivelant → equivalent ✅
 * equivilant → equivalent ✅
 * escourt → escort ✅
 * esspecially → especially ✅
 * everytime → every time ✅
 * execept → except ✅
 * existance → existence ✅
 * exsept → except ✅
 * exspensive → expensive ✅
 * extremly → extremely ✅

F

 * flys → flies or fly's or flys' ✅
 * foward → forward ✅
 * foreward → forward ✅
 * fouth → fourth ✅
 * freind → friend ✅
 * fulfil → fulfill both are right
 * futher → further ✅

G

 * gardner → gardener ✅
 * Gattling → Gatling ✅ 'Note: In Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour this is right'
 * gameboy → Game Boy ✅
 * gaurd → guard ✅
 * gonna → going to ✅
 * gray → grey (regional spelling variant)
 * guage → gauge ✅
 * guerilla → guerrilla (note: alternate spelling) ✅ Note: According to Xbox.com, the Halo3 achievement is spelt Guerilla
 * Gyrados → Gyarados ✅

H

 * happend → happened ✅
 * havent → haven't ✅
 * hidding → hiding ✅
 * hitpoint → hit point ✅
 * hitpoints → hit points ✅
 * horizaontally → horizontally ✅
 * hovercrafts → hovercraft ✅

I

 * immediatley → immediately ✅
 * ina → in a ✅
 * inadvertantly → inadvertently ✅
 * inbetween → in-between, in between or between ✅
 * indefinately → indefinitely ✅
 * independantly → independently ✅
 * indispensible → indispensable ✅
 * infanty → infantry ✅
 * infront → in front ✅
 * ingame → in-game ✅
 * inital → initial ✅
 * insted → instead ✅
 * instil → instill (note: regional difference) ✅
 * intial → initial ✅
 * invisble → invisible ✅
 * invisiblity → invisibility ✅
 * irreplacable → irreplaceable ✅
 * isnt → isn't ✅

J

 * junp → jump ✅

K

 * kat → cat (note: this is a common female name) ✅
 * knowledgable → knowledgeable ✅

L

 * labled → labeled ✅
 * layed → laid (note: also found in "played") ✅
 * lazer → laser ✅
 * levelled → leveled (note: alternate spelling) ✅
 * loosing → losing (note: correct in rare instances) ✅

M

 * maximise → maximize (note: alternative spelling) ✅
 * megaman → Mega Man ✅
 * mecenary → mercenary ✅
 * mercinary → mercenary ✅
 * messageing → messaging ✅
 * millenial → millennial ✅
 * miscelaneous → miscellaneous ✅
 * miscellanious → miscellaneous ✅
 * mislabeled → mislabelled ✅ (British/American difference)
 * missle → missile ✅
 * mispelling → misspelling ✅

N

 * neccesary → necessary ✅
 * neccessary → necessary ✅
 * negligable → negligible ✅
 * nogotiate → negotiate ✅
 * nonexistent → non-existent (note: alternative spelling) ✅
 * nto → not ✅
 * nunchuck → nunchucks → nunchuk ✅ (Note: change to "nunchuk" for Wii games that use the nunchuk controller)

O

 * occasionaly → occasionally ✅
 * oppisit → opposite ✅
 * opponet → opponent ✅
 * opponennt → opponent ✅
 * oppenant → opponent ✅
 * oppurtunity → opportunity ✅
 * oppurtunities → opportunities ✅
 * opportunites → opportunities ✅
 * orginal → original ✅
 * originaly → originally ✅
 * outta → out of ✅
 * oviously → obviously ✅

P

 * particuliar → particular ✅
 * pavillion → pavilion (note: alternate spelling) ✅
 * payed → paid ✅
 * persistant → persistent ✅
 * poins → points ✅
 * pokemon → Pokémon ✅
 * Pokeball → Poké Ball ✅
 * Pokéball → Poké Ball ✅
 * Poké ball → Poké Ball ✅
 * Poke Ball → Poké Ball ✅
 * pokemart → Pokémart ✅
 * ponts → points ✅
 * postions → positions ✅
 * powerfull → powerful ✅
 * preform → perform ✅
 * prespective → perspective → prospective ✅
 * prestigous → prestigious ✅
 * prity → pretty ✅
 * proccess → process ✅
 * protaganist → protagonist ✅
 * protuding → protruding ✅

R

 * recieve → receive ✅
 * recieved → received ✅
 * recive → receive ✅
 * recruting → recruiting ✅
 * refered → referred ✅
 * refridgerator → refrigerator ✅
 * relativley → relatively ✅
 * relervant → relevant ✅
 * remaing → remaining ✅
 * remodeled → remodelled ✅ (British/American difference)
 * rendesvous → rendezvous ✅
 * retuns → returns ✅
 * reveiw → review ✅

S

 * sacrifical → sacrificial ✅
 * Scandanavia → Scandinavia ✅
 * Screnshot → Screenshot ✅
 * seige → siege ✅
 * seperate → separate ✅
 * seperated → separated ✅
 * seperately → separately ✅
 * sheild → shield ✅
 * shootin → shooting ✅
 * similat → similar ✅
 * similiarly → similarly ✅
 * simutaneously → simultaneously ✅
 * simultaneousy → simultaneously ✅
 * sizable → sizeable ✅ (Regional variances)
 * slaped → slapped ✅
 * slighty → slightly ✅
 * soley → solely ✅
 * souvenier → souvenir ✅
 * spys → spies or spy's ✅
 * stratergy → strategy ✅
 * stregth → strength ✅
 * stright → straight ✅
 * succesfully → successfully ✅
 * suprise → surprise ✅
 * survivabilty → survivability ✅

T

 * targetted → targeted (note: alternative spelling) ✅
 * teh → the ✅
 * tehn → then ✅
 * temperment → temperament ✅
 * tendancy → tendency ✅
 * theese → these ✅
 * theif → thief ✅
 * theives → thieves ✅
 * ther → there or their ✅
 * theres → there's ✅
 * thier → their ✅
 * thingy → thing (informal; page may need tagging as drivel) ✅
 * thn → then ✅
 * thoughought → throughout ✅
 * throughought → throughout ✅
 * throught → throughout or through or thought ✅
 * tunnes → tunnels ✅
 * till → until (informal; page may need tagging as drivel. note: this is also a real word) ✅
 * torpedos → torpedoes ✅
 * torwards → towards ✅

U

 * unaccessable → unaccessible ✅
 * unfortunatly → unfortunately ✅
 * untill → until ✅
 * usefull → useful ✅
 * useable → usable (note: alternate spelling) ✅
 * ususally → usually ✅

V

 * villan → villain ✅
 * villian → villain ✅

W

 * walkthough → walkthrough ✅
 * wanna → want to ✅
 * wasnt → wasn't ✅
 * weilded → wielded ✅
 * weilding → wielding ✅
 * westish → westward ✅
 * wich → witch or which ✅
 * wil → will ✅
 * withing → within ✅
 * whats → what's ✅
 * wittness → witness ✅
 * wnat → want ✅
 * wouldnt → wouldn’t ✅

Y

 * youll → you'll ✅