The ten words most often misspelled online

Far be it from me to point out web sites where there’s an obvious display of poor spelling – you’ll only pick up the spelling mistakes in my work. Better to leave it to online firm TextTrust who has compiled a list of the top ten words most often spelt incorrectly on web sites – or as their press release states: "we sites". That gives me a lot of faith in their proofreading service.

The top 10 words, and their correct spelling, are:

1. Independant – Independent
2. Accomodation – Accommodation
3. Definately – Definitely
4. Recieve – Receive
5. Opportunites – Opportunities
6. Thier – Their
7. Occured – Occurred
8. Infomation – Information
9. Offical – Official
10. Acitives – Activities

I wonder how much is down to poor spelling, versus poor typing, versus using online editors with no built-in spell-checking.

Or Microsoft Word where someone’s sabotaged the Autocorrect feature… ahem.