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 ✅ (informal; page may need tagging as drivel)
 * appart → apart ✅
 * approch → approach ✅
 * approack → approach ✅
 * aquiring → acquiring ✅
 * armys → armies ✅
 * 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 ✅
 * caft → craft ✅
 * canceled → cancelled (British/American difference)
 * cant → can't ✅
 * 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 ✅
 * 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 ✅
 * gray → grey (regional spelling variant)
 * guage → gauge ✅
 * guerilla → guerrilla ✅ 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 ✅
 * intial → initial ✅
 * invisble → invisible ✅
 * invisiblity → invisibility ✅
 * irreplacable → irreplaceable ✅
 * isnt → isn't ✅

J

 * junp → jump ✅

K

 * kat → cat ✅
 * knowledgable → knowledgeable ✅

L

 * labled → labeled ✅
 * layed → laid ✅
 * lazer → laser ✅
 * levelled → leveled ✅ (Probable regional difference)
 * loosing → losing ✅

M

 * maximise → maximize ✅ (Possible 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 ✅
 * nto → not ✅
 * nunchuck → nunchuk ✅ (Note: this only needs to be changed 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 ✅
 * payed → paid ✅
 * persistant → persistent ✅
 * poins → points ✅
 * pokemon → Pokémon ✅
 * Pokeball → Poké Ball ✅
 * Pokéball → Poké Ball ✅
 * ball&ns0=1&ns4=1&ns14=1&fulltext=Search Poké ball → Poké Ball ✅
 * Ball&ns0=1&ns4=1&ns14=1&fulltext=Search Poke Ball → Poké Ball ✅
 * pokemart → Pokémart ✅
 * ponts → points ✅
 * postions → positions ✅
 * powerfull → powerful ✅
 * preform → perform ✅
 * prespective → perspective ✅
 * 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 ✅
 * 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) ✅
 * torpedos → torpedoes ✅
 * torwards → towards ✅

U

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