NOTE: I HAVE EDITED THE CONSOLIDATED WORD LIST FILES ON THIS SITE TO WHERE IT NO LONGER HAS ANY OF THE FOLLOWING ERRORS. HOWEVER, IF YOU ARE USING A DIFFERENT FILE TO STUDY THE CWL, THIS LIST WILL STILL BE HELPFUL.
There are a number of errors in the CWL (understandable, given that there are 23,413 words in it). In the Preface, it says that some of the words may not be in the dictionary, and this was indeed the case. I have assumed that there are no duplicates in the CWL when I was searching for what the correct spelling is, so no word under “Correct Spelling” is already in the CWL. Without further ado, here is a list of all of its misspellings/non-words.
Words Appearing Frequently
| Page Number | Misspelling | Correct Spelling |
| 106 | orgetfulness* | forgetfulness |
| 133 | glasphalt | not a word |
| 309 | uerte | suerte |
*actually in Words Appearing with Moderate Frequency
Words Appearing with Moderate Frequency
| Page Number | Misspelling | Correct Spelling |
| 79 | donnybook | donnybrook |
| 137 | inebriacy | not a word |
| 204 | porphyous | porphyrous |
| 235 | sesquilateral | sesquialteral |
| 256 | tambouriens | tambourines |
| 261 | thersitical | not a word |
| 265 | topogaphize | topographize |
| 288 | zerography | xerography |
Words Appearing Infrequently
| Page Number | Misspelling | Correct Spelling |
| 6 | amitious | ambitious |
| 7 | apocynthion | not a word |
| 10 | bacciform | not a word |
| 10 | baccivorous | not a word |
| 13 | beaner | beanery |
| 29 | comtemptible | contemptible |
| 29 | comtemptuous | contemptuous |
| 41 | docorticate | decorticate |
| 42 | dompty | dumpty |
| 47 | enfrancishe | enfranchise |
| 52 | fibrocitis | not a word (probably old spelling of fibrositis) |
| 69 | illumiometer | illuminometer |
| 70 | inbiber | imbiber |
| 70 | inbroglio | imbroglio |
| 70 | inelude | not a word |
| 76 | kekepa | kikepa |
| 82 | maiant | naiant |
| 83 | marquette | maquette |
| 107 | presybytery | presbytery |
| 112 | rangibility | tangibility |
| 116 | reverain | riverain |
| 117 | romaticism | romanticism |
| 118 | sabulosity | not a word |
| 121 | secesssion | secession |
| 135 | synchnocarpous | sychnocarpous |
| 136 | taxophily | toxophily |
| 141 | trinked | trunked, twinked, trinket (impossible to determine |
| 146 | varrio | not a word (old spelling of barrio) |
Errata: Frequently Asked: Page 60 of 349: ciguatera, in the sentence it shows ciQuatera, q instead of c. BTW, thanks for all of this!
Another error – page 262 (Moderate Frequent); thrasonic is actually thrasonical.
The words THERSITICAL, APOCYNTHION, BACCIFORM, BACCIVOROUS and SABULOSITY don’t have entries in the Merriam-Webster but have entries on other dictionaries like in the website dictionary.com
Thersitical is a word.
forgetfulness incorrect spelling is actually in the Moderate Frequency section.
Can I please get your full CWL please. Would like to use it for regional bee preparation.
How can I get consolidated word lists
how can we get this word list?
haha 🙂
The consolidated list is very helpful no doubt. Taking the effort to fix the errata is even more helpful. It takes a lot of effort. Thank you!
nice joke