Confused and Misused Words




Confused and Misused Words :


English in the present world is not a foreign language. It has become the International Language in an IT-driven society. One’s success in life has become very much dependent on the level of proficiency in English Language. Nevertheless, English language harbours a number of words that are highly susceptible to be confused or misused.


This page on Confused and Misused Words gives you a compilation of the most frequently misspelled, commonly confused and easily misunderstood words floating around in the English Language. This section will immensely benefit you all new to English language, the aspirants of management entrance exams such as GMAT, GRE, SAT, TOEFL and LSAT as well as the candidates for recruitment-exams. In addition to those who want to enter higher educational portal, those who are in the middle of their professional ladder also will find this section helpful and resourceful. We have done our best in collecting all those confused words. Our team of experts is looking out to add more such pair of confused words to this compilation. This section will be always comprehensive so that your knowledge of English will be updated by your continuous visit to this page.


Since our sole intention is to make this web-portal as complete as possible as far as English language is considered, we add more sections of this nature to make our visitors like you come back regularly to this web-portal. English language is bigger than Atlantic Ocean. The more we add, the more is yet to be added. The more we learn, the more is yet to be learnt. Such is the case of English language which has gained international attention after the onset of computer and internet.


By giving clear and sensible guidance to avoid the common pitfalls of the English language, this page will play a pivotal role in your progress towards professional success.


List of Confused and Misused Words beginning with I :



  1. What is the difference between Ideal and Idyll?
  2. What is the difference between Idle and Idol?
  3. What is the difference between Imaginable and Imaginary?
  4. What is the difference between Ill and Eel?
  5. What is the difference between Impart and Import?
  6. What is the difference between Impassable and Impossible?
  7. What is the difference between Imperial and Imperious?
  8. What is the difference between Impostor and Imposture?
  9. What is the difference between Imprudent and Impudent?
  10. What is the difference between Inapt and Inept?
  11. What is the difference between Incite and Insight?
  12. What is the difference between Indoor and Indoors?
  13. What is the difference between Industrial and Industrious?
  14. What is the difference between Inflammable and Inflammatory?
  15. What is the difference between Ingenious and Ingenuous?
  16. What is the difference between Ingress and Egress?
  17. What is the difference between Incredible and Incredulous?
  18. What is the difference between Intolerable and Intolerant?
  19. What is the difference between Irk and Arc?
  20. What is the difference between Itch and Each?












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