RE: Avocado or Omelette? The Most Commonly Misspelled Food Revealed.

RE: Avocado or Omelette? The Most Commonly Misspelled Food Revealed.

The internet is the best place to go to for recipes and meal inspiration. Simply type in one ingredient and you’ll find endless possibilities for what you can make with it. However, users around the world are guilty of regularly misspelling common foods that we can all find in our fridges and cupboards!

That’s why Top10 Meal Deliveries sought to discover the most commonly misspelled foods - and learnt that internet users across the world have made over 4.5 Million spelling mistakes when searching food names!

Key Findings

• Avocado is the most misspelled, with 371,600 searches per month on average made globally 

• Germans misspell Zucchini more than anyone else

• Americans are the guiltiest for misspelling 7 of the top 20 words analysed

• Italian cuisine dominate the top 20 list of misspelled food and drinks

• UK web users regularly misspell Gnocchi and Bruschetta

Top 20

Avocado tops the list with 371,600 combined searches for Avacado and Avacodo, with India being the most guilty country.

Brazilians are the top culprits for misspelling Omelette which ranks 2nd with 339,000 misspelled searches, with common misspelt searches including Omelet and Omlete.

UK residents misspell Gnocchi the most, having discovered a grand total of 295,800 average searches made each month globally for the Italian dumplings, with Gnocci the most common misspelling (170,000 average searches globally).

Germans Misspell Zucchini and Mozzarella more than anyone else, with the most common misspellings being Zuchini and Mozerella.

Top 10 Misspellings

Methodology

1. Top10 Meal Deliveries sought to discover the most commonly misspelled foods through global search trend data.
   
   
2. Top10 Meal Deliveries started by collating previous articles and quizzes about the most misspelled foods from Buzzfeed, 967 The Eagle, and Grubhub as well as food names that have appeared in spelling bees from 2010, 2014 and 2015.
   
   
3. 40 food names were extracted for investigation, and Top10 Meal Deliveries input each one into Google analytics provider Ahrefs to discover average monthly searches, as well as sourcing the most common incorrect spellings of the food names.
   
   
4. The data was cleaned and filtered to produce a top 20 list of commonly misspelled foods.
   
   
5. This data is correct as of 20/01/2022 and is subject to change.

A link to the original datasheet can be found here.

Credit: Top10 Meal Deliveries