Hello,

I am looking for a list of letter combinations that people often
mistype/misspell - for example "spaek" instead of "speak". I am
looking for mistakes that result from combinations which are very
common as well as mistakes that result from the QWERTY keyboard (can't
think of a good example right now).

Obviously these list should not contain thousands of items - I'm not
looking for anything huge, just for the most common mistakes. Then
again, a mere 10 combinations are definitely not enough.

Thanks,
Chen

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 20 Aug 2003 13:12 PDT

Am I on the right track with these lists? If so, I'll be glad to hunt
down a few more.

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~min/ILLDATA/Email_misspell.htm

http://faculty.quinnipiac.edu/libraries/tballard/typoscomplete.html

http://www.bradford-co-fla.org/departments/library/moretypos/moretypos.htm

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Clarification of Question by tubedogg-ga on 20 Aug 2003 13:55 PDT

pinkfreud-ga,

Thank you, but I'm afraid that's not exactly what I'm looking for. I
already have a list of commonly misspelt words (over 1,500), what I
want now is a list of letter combinations that are often typed
incorrectly - for example, "caesar" and "caesar", i.e "ae" and "ea".

Thanks,
Chen

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 20 Aug 2003 17:03 PDT

Most wordprocessing programs these days have a built-in "Quick
Correct" function which automatically corrects common mistakes.  The
list includes both spelling mistakes as well as common.

For instance, my list of about 150 words will recognize "adn" and
correct it to "and".

Would a list of this sort be the right thing for you?  It would be a
relatively easy matter for you to then go through the list and pull
out the typos that are of interest to you.

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Clarification of Question by tubedogg-ga on 21 Aug 2003 08:38 PDT

Hi pafalafa-ga,

The list you are describing sounds good, but I'm scared that 150
entries wouldn't be enough, since some combinations are bound to be
repeated.

Thanks,
Chen

This list does not appear to be exactly what you want either, since it
doesn't focus on particular letter combinations that are most commonly
mistyped.

Rather, it is "Dr. Dvorak's list of the 100 most frequently misspelled
words by typists using the standard ("qwerty") keyboard and the Dvorak
keyboard."  Thus it is a list of short words that appeared (to Dr.
Dvorak at least) to demonstrate the unique problems that QWERTY
typists have with certain very common, easy-to-spell words.  (His list
of most common Dvorak keyboard misspellings includes longer and
somewhat less common words.)  Here is a link to the lists:
Jeff Bigler: "QWERTY and Dvorak Typing "Demons"
http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/Dvorak/demons.html

This is the only compilation of words that I have found that purports
to correlate typing with misspelling.  If this is indeed what you
want, I would be happy to post this information as an answer.

Hi markj-ga,

Thank you for your comment. That list does look promising, but I also
need the misspelt versions of these words (I could write these myself
but it's hard with longer words).

So at the moment I'm afraid I cannot accept this comment as an answer,
but if it will be the best one eventually - I will.

Thanks,
Chen