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.
Word ladder be connected with a word ladder. Knuth used a fixed collection of 5,757 of the most common English five-letter words, excluding proper nouns. He determined exactly when two words of the collection had a word ladder between them via other words in the collection. Knuth found that most words were connected to each other, and he also found that 671 words of the collection did not form a word ladder with any other words. He called these words "aloof", because "aloof" is itself an example of such a word. Word ladder Word ladder (also known as Doublets, word-links, change-the-word puzzles,