Commonly Confused Words

If you’ve got the present tense of Lie vs Lay vs Laid under control but still freeze up when you

If you’ve already mastered its and it’s, you’ll find who’s vs whose almost suspiciously familiar because it follows the same

These two words look like they should rhyme, and they’re spelled almost identically—just one letter apart—but they’re pronounced differently and

Here’s a rule most people never had explicitly explained to them, even though native speakers usually get it right by

These two words are true homophones—pronounced exactly the same way—and they even share the same Latin ancestor, which is why

These two words differ by just one letter—Advice vs Advise—but that small spelling change also affects pronunciation. Once you know

These two words sound almost identical in fast, casual speech, which is exactly why they get swapped so often. Accept

These two words are perfect homophones—they sound exactly the same when spoken—but they mean completely different things and fit different

These two words are spelled almost identically, pronounced exactly the same way, and share a common ancestor in Latin —

These two little abbreviations show up constantly in professional writing, and I.e. vs E.g. get swapped so often that plenty