Norstedts, Sweden’s oldest publishing house, together with the Language Council of Sweden (Språkrådet), has put together a list of words in Swedish and English thought to be most often misspelled by Swedes.

“It’s impossible to say exactly which misspellings are the most common, but we know which words are often spelled incorrectly,” said the Language Council’s Anna Antonsson to Sveriges Television (SVT).

Among Swedish words which often end up spelled incorrectly are aborre (‘perch’; correct spelling: abborre); cyckel (‘bicycle’; correct spelling: cykel); fotölj (lounge chair; correct spelling: fåtölj); and tillfredställande (‘satisfying’; correct spelling: tillfredsställande).

As for English words which Swedes often fail to spell correctly, Norstedt’s list includes ‘allways’ (always); ‘fabolous’ (fabulous); ‘mutch’ (much); and ‘verry’ (very).

Some words are associated with several possible misspellings.

For example, Norstedts lists three common faulty constructions for the Swedish word diskussion (‘discussion’: diskution, diskusion, disskution) and for ‘because’ in English (becouse, becuse, beacuse).

According to Språkrådet, the increased occurrence of pronunciation-based spelling mistakes indicates that young people are writing words less often than before, causing them to come up with spellings based more on how words sound.

One advantage to the phenomenon, however, is that young people find it easier to give English words more Swedish-style spellings, with mejl (mail) and dejt (date) cited as examples.

Below is the complete list of commonly misspelled Swedish words. Double click on any word in the ‘Correct Spelling’ column to launch The Local’s translation tool, provided by Tyda, and find out the meaning of the word in English.