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.

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 * - → – 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 ✅
 * 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 ✅

C

 * cancelling → canceling (British/English difference)
 * caft → craft ✅
 * canceled → cancelled ✅
 * 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 ✅
 * curcuit → Circuit ✅

D

 * dammage → damage ✅
 * defalt → default ✅
 * delt → dealt ✅
 * definately → definitely ✅
 * discernable → discernible ✅
 * 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 ✅
 * 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 ✅
 * extremly → extremely ✅
 * execept → except ✅
 * existance → existence ✅
 * exsept → except ✅

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 ✅
 * gattling → Gatling ✅
 * gaurd → guard ✅
 * gray → grey ✅
 * guage → gauge ✅
 * guerilla → guerrilla ✅
 * Gyrados → Gyarados ✅

H

 * happend → happened ✅
 * havent → haven't ✅
 * hidding → hiding ✅
 * 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 ✅
 * loosing → losing ✅

M

 * maximise → maximize ✅
 * megaman → Mega Man ✅
 * mecenary → mercenary ✅
 * mercinary → mercenary ✅
 * messageing → messaging ✅
 * millenial → millennial ✅
 * miscelaneous → miscellaneous ✅
 * miscellanious → miscellaneous ✅
 * mislabeled → mislabelled ✅
 * 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 ✅
 * 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 ✅
 * 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 ✅
 * rendesvous → rendezvous ✅
 * retuns → returns ✅
 * reveiw → review ✅

S

 * sacrifical → sacrificial ✅
 * Scandanavia → Scandinavia ✅
 * seige → siege ✅
 * seperate → separate ✅
 * seperated → separated ✅
 * seperately → separately ✅
 * sheild → shield ✅
 * shootin → shooting ✅
 * similat → similar ✅
 * similiarly → similarly ✅
 * simutaneously → simultaneously ✅
 * simultaneousy → simultaneously ✅
 * sizable → sizeable ✅
 * 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 ✅
 * traveling → travelling ✅

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 ✅

Y

 * youll → you'll ✅