A corpus of common misspellings, for examples and practice

This is a codetbl_df mapping misspellings of their words, compiled by Wikipedia, where it is licensed under the CC-BY SA license. (Three words with non-ASCII characters were filtered out). If you'd like to reproduce this dataset from Wikipedia, see the example code below.

misspellings

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 4505 rows and 2 columns.

Source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lists_of_common_misspellings/For_machines

Examples

if (FALSE) {
library(rvest)
library(readr)
library(dplyr)
library(stringr)
library(tidyr)

u <- "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lists_of_common_misspellings/For_machines"
h <- read_html(u)

misspellings <- h %>%
  html_nodes("pre") %>%
  html_text() %>%
  readr::read_delim(col_names = c("misspelling", "correct"), delim = ">",
                    skip = 1) %>%
  mutate(misspelling = str_sub(misspelling, 1, -2)) %>%
  unnest(correct = str_split(correct, ", ")) %>%
  filter(Encoding(correct) != "UTF-8")
}