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Spelling bee: Top 100 misspelled words in the legal industry

March 7, 2024

So you think you can spell? Test your skill on these 100 most commonly misspelled words in the legal industry:

  1. Accommodate
  2. Acquiesce
  3. Adjudicate
  4. Admissibility
  5. Adverse
  6. Affidavit
  7. Aggregate
  8. Aggravate
  9. Allege
  10. Amicable
  11. Appellant
  12. Appraise
  13. Arraignment
  14. Assent
  15. Attainder
  16. A lot
  17. Benefit
  18. Calendar
  19. Certificate
  20. Consider
  21. Counsel
  22. Decree
  23. Deficiency
  24. Deposition
  25. Disburse
  26. Elicit
  27. Embarrass
  28. Enjoin
  29. Emanate
  30. Equitable
  31. Exemplify
  32. Exorbitant
  33. Expedite
  34. Extenuate
  35. Facilitate
  36. Forbear
  37. Foresee
  38. Gratuity
  39. Harass
  40. Impartial
  41. Impeach
  42. Injunction
  43. Intercede
  44. Intestate
  45. Irrevocable
  46. Judgment
  47. Lien
  48. Liability
  49. License
  50. Maintenance
  51. Memorandum
  52. Mitigate
  53. Necessary
  54. Negligence
  55. Omission
  56. Oppose
  57. Pecuniary
  58. Perjury
  59. Plea
  60. Precedent
  61. Probate
  62. Proceeding
  63. Prosecute
  64. Protective
  65. Rebuttal
  66. Receipt
  67. Referendum
  68. Regret
  69. Rehabilitate
  70. Reimburse
  71. Remission
  72. Reprieve
  73. Requirement
  74. Rescind
  75. Respondent
  76. Restitution
  77. Retainer
  78. Revoke
  79. Salary
  80. Sanction
  81. Satisfy
  82. Separate
  83. Statute
  84. Subpoena
  85. Succession
  86. Summons
  87. Supervise
  88. Support
  89. Surety
  90. Testify
  91. Testament
  92. Transfer
  93. Trustee
  94. Unanimous
  95. Undertake
  96. Unlawful
  97. Validity
  98. Waiver
  99. Warrant
  100. Willful

 

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