Commonly misspelled English words is a very common error; the following words from the list are all good English words, though often incorrectly used in place of their homophones: Spell checkers do not detect incorrect use of homophones. Personal names and surnames may be pronounced like a standard English word, but with different spelling: "balance" and "John Ballance"; "war" and "Evelyn Waugh"; "marshal" and "George Marshall". Personal names do, of course, generally start with a capital letter. A misspelling in English might be made by someone used to a different spelling in another language; for example, "address" is translated "adresse" in French and German.
Most common words in Spanish includes samples from all Spanish-speaking countries. The list of "1000 most frequent word forms" comes from an analysis of CREA version 3.2. Plurals, verb conjugations, and other inflections are ranked separately. Homonyms, however, are not distinguished from one another. CREA 3.2 was published in June 2008. In 2006, Mark Davies, an associate professor of linguistics at Brigham Young University, published his estimate of the 5000 most common words in Modern Spanish. To make this list, he compiled samples only from 20th-century sources—especially from the years 1970 to 2000. Most of the sources are from the 1990s. Of the 20 million