Do you make these mistakes when writing English?

Below are words often used incorrectly, because they sound and look similar.

accept - except
accede - exceed
addition - audition
advice - advise
affect - effect
ail - ale
all - awl
allowed - aloud
allude - elude
allusion - illusion
ally - alley
altar - alter
ascribe - subscribe

bail - bale
baited - bated
ball - bawl
band - banned
bare - bear
base - bass
bawdy - body
bazaar - bizarre
beat - beet
berth - birth
bite - byte
board - bored
boarder - border
brake - break
breach - breech
bread - bred
buy - by - bye

cache - cash
cannon - canon
capital - capitol
ceased - seized
cede - seed
cell - sell
cellar - seller
censor - censure - sensor
cheap - cheep
chord - cord
chute - shoot
cite - sight - site
cloths - clothes
coarse - course
complement - compliment
composer - composure
comprised - compromised
copyright - copywrite
coral - corral
council - counsel
councilor - counselor
creak - creek
cue - queue
currant - current

dawn - don
days - daze
dear - deer
decent - descent
defiantly - definitely
desert - dessert
dew - do - due
die - dye
disdain - distain
doe - dough
dual - duel

emigrate - immigrate
enquire - inquire
enquiry -inquiry
ensure - insure
exercise - exorcise
espansive - expensive

faint - feint
fair - fare
faze - phase
feat - feet
final - finale
flea - flee
flour - flower
flu - flue
for - fore - four
foul - fowl

grate - great
gorilla - guerilla
guessed - guest

hall - haul
hairy - harry
hardy - hearty
heal - heel
hear - here
heard - herd
hearsay - heresy
higher - hire
him - hymn
hoard - horde
hold - holed
hole - whole
hurdle - hurtle

illicit - elicit
impassable - impossible
incite - insight
incompetence - incompetents
intimate - intimidate
innocence - innocents

knew - new
knead - need
know - no
knows- nose - noes

lam - lamb
leak - leek
led - lead
liable - libel
lighting - lightning - lightening
links - lynx
loan - lone
loaner - loner
loose - lose
looser - loser

made - maid
magnate - magnet
mail - male
main - mane
mall - maul
manner - manor
marry - merry
marshal - martial
medal - meddle - metal - mettle
meat - meet
might - mite
mind - mined
moral - morale
morn - mourn
morning - mourning

oar - or
of - off
one - won
ones - once

pain - pane
passed - past
patience - patients
pause - paws
peace - peas
peak - peek - pique
peal - peel
pedal - peddle - petal
personal - personnel
perspective - prospective
plain - plane
pleas - please
polish - Polish
poll - pole - Pole
poor - pore - pour
pray - prey
precedent - president
presence - presents
principal - principle
profit - prophet

rain - rein - reign
rap - wrap
real - reel
reek - wreak
residence - residents
rest - wrest
right - rite - write
ring - wring
road - rode
role - roll
root - route
rye - wry

sail - sale
scene - seen
sea - see
scar - scare
scared - scarred
scents - sense
seam - seem
secede - succeed
seccession - succession
sew - sow
shear – sheer
shudder - shutter
sleight - slight
soar - sore
sole - soul
stake - steak
stationary - stationery
steal - steel
stalker - stocker
subsides - subsidies

taught - taut
team - teem
tear - tier
tenants - tenets
that – which
that – who
their - there - they're
threw - through
through - thorough
to – too – two - 2
toad - towed
toe - tow
track - tract

quiet - quite

udder - utter

vain - vane - vein
vary - very
vial - vile
vice - vise

waved - waived
wait - weight
waist - waste
ware - wear - were - where
waver - waiver
way - whey
weak - week
weather - whether
were- we're
which - witch
while - wile
whine - wine
whirled - world
who - whom
who's - whose
worse - worst

you’re - your

Now that you're aware, you'll recognize the next three regularly...
Possibly because many public schools no longer teach grammar, and possibly because only a handful of people care.