Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings/Repetitions

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Repetitions[edit]

It is easy to accidentally type a word twice and not notice it, particularly if the word is a short one.

Links to the lists[edit]

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Homophones | Repetitions | Grammar and miscellaneous

For machines – machine-readable version (condensed)

format:

  • misspelling (click for Wikipedia search); (correct spelling)
Absolute duplicates
Near duplicates
  • a an
  • a the
  • an a
  • an and
  • the this
Other strange couples
  • are been
  • was been

Most frequent duplicates[edit]

The following is a list of the 172 most common word duplicates (number after word is count of occurrences) extracted from a search of all English Wikipedia articles existing on 21 February 2006.

Most punctuation was automatically removed and so the count is unlikely to be 100% accurate. The count of single letter words is likely to be significantly affected by markup/punctuation removal and these have not been included on the list.

Some of these words occur in a context where duplication is intended, such as for emphasis: please please, blah blah, yadda yadda, very very; where the scientific name of an animal coincides with the common name: Gorilla gorilla, Homo sapiens sapiens; where the genus and subgenus have the same name: Octopus Octopus; or even part of the name, for example: Pago Pago, Dum Dum, Duran Duran, Wagga Wagga, Walla Walla, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; or a town or city in a county, state or country of the same name: Oxford, Oxfordshire, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

The city of Luxembourg in orange is part of the Canton of Luxembourg, (add red) in the district of Luxembourg (add dark grey) in the country of Luxembourg (add light grey).

Most frequent duplicate word pairs[edit]

The following is a list of the 100 most common word pair duplicates (number after word is count of occurrences) extracted from a search of all English Wikipedia articles existing on 21 February 2006.

please 118366 blah 104615 the 20692 it 16237 that 11917 fuck 8552 etc 6411
giggidy 5582 very 5483 you 5170 is 4672 soda 4321 many 4248 a 3842
in 3704 yo 3534 to 3096 really 2986 crook 2865 had 2567 god 2518
test 2198 no 2192 use 2152 this 2037 and 2033 text 1844 ha 1720
none 1690 much 1634 of 1570 dance 1459 on 1257 duran 1200 there 1170
far 1050 so 1007 long 938 cambridge 881 developers 870 doctor 819 yes 768
for 759 as 753 was 737 at 690 oxford 681 are 666 we 654
not 653 wikipedia 628 one 625 dee 595 great 591 be 589 her 548
do 542 testing 531 go 502 mad 495 yeah 492 film 492 from 491
with 478 bye 477 bang 469 well 463 late 448 by 437 have 431
australia 430 walla 415 all 406 heh 397 hey 392 way 386 wiki 383
nan 379 university 378 an 358 highway 352 pope 344 english 338 bad 333
guitar 324 mew 317 makeitstop 317 never 315 emperor 313 about 313 list 312
delete 312 or 311 now 310 wild 301 ho 301 boom 301 name 282
wagga 280 time 278 goo 276 ok 273 us 272 plus 272 new 267
more 267 here 263 my 261 patriarch 260 youfuck 255 people 255 user 253
princeton 253 music 243 hi 239 has 235 up 228 ever 223 spam 217
puyo 217 octopus 217 yada 215 solid 214 sing 208 mighty 208 money 206
kappa 205 die 204 paw 202 they 199 radio 199 what 197 talk 196
article 195 wet 191 london 191 always 190 why 189 lake 187 other 185
but 185 game 180 county 178 vocals 177 surprise 175 yadda 174 if 173
keep 171 date 171 city 171 than 169 love 169 hot 169 first 169
delta 169 hear 168 south 167 oh 167 can 167 pago 166 ancient 165
television 164 water 162 hint 161 kiss 160 dum 158 down 157 sapiens 156
chitty 156 page 153 prince 150 me 150 gorilla 150