Ten most commonly misspelled words?

Came across this recent list, apparently from the Oxford Dictionary.

Definately
Goverment ...
Seperate. ...
Occured. ...
Untill ...
Recieve ...
Wich ...
Accomodate
Pharoah
Publicially

Some interesting changes from the list I used for this OUP post nearly a decade ago here. The inclusion of 'wich' and 'untill' may alarm - 'pharaoh' not so much....

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