Warcraft Wiki:List of common misspellings

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Below is a list of common misspellings and confused terms on Warcraft Wiki. When checking for misspellings, please ensure the word is not intentionally spelled that way before fixing it.

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Misspellings

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• Acherus: Archerus
• Adamantite: Has various misspelled versions. This is the only true spelling.
• Aggro: Agro, Argo
• Ahn'Qiraj: Anh'Qiraj, Anh'Quiraj, Ahn'Quiraj
• Alliance: Allience
• Arcatraz: Alcatraz
  • Alcatraz was a real-world prison. Arcatraz is the in-game dungeon inspired by said prison.
• Aspect of the Pack: Aspect of the Pact
• Attumen the Huntsman: Attunement, Attunemen
• Balance: Balence
• Bestial Wrath: Beastial Wrath
• Blackfathom Deeps: Black Fathom Deeps, Blackfathom Depths, Black Fathom Depths
• Blackrock Depths: Black Rock Depths, Blackrock Deeps, Black Rock Deeps
• Burning Steppes: Burning Steps, Burning Steeps
• Capital: Capitol
  • A capitol is a building that houses a legislative assembly. While a capital city may have a capitol, generally the city itself is not called a capitol.
• Cenarion: Cenarian
• Coilfang: Coifang
• Consecrate: Consencrate, Concentrate, Concecrate
• Darnassus: Darnasus
• Draenei: Dranei, Draenie, Draenai
• Deceiver: Deciever
• Drakkisath: Drekkisath
• Durnholde: Durnhold
• Dwarves: Dwarfs
  • According to the American Heritage Dictionary, "Dwarves" and "Dwarfs" are both proper pluralizations of "Dwarf". However, since Tolkien popularized it in Lord of the Rings, "dwarves" has become the go-to usage for fantasy settings, and Blizzard uses that spelling in its official materials.
• Enchanter: Chanter
  • Chanter is sometimes used in-game as a synonym for "spellcaster" (Shadowforge Chanter, Blazebound Chanter), but this usage has nothing to do with enchanting. It should not be used as an abbreviation in articles.
• Elves: Elfs
• Exalted: Exhalted, Exaulted, Exhaulted
  • Exalt: Exhalt, Exault, Exhault
• Exodar: Exador, Exedar
• Felhunter: Often confused with "felhound".
• Feral: Ferel
• Feralas: Fearalas, Ferals
• Flamegor: Flamegore
• Frost (mage specialization/talent tree): Ice, Water
• Gnomeregan: Gnomergan, Gnomeragan, Gnomeragon
  • Interestingly, "Gnomeragon" does show up in the game's files, such as the music files "gnomeragon01-zone" and "gnomeragon02-zone". It may have been a valid spelling early in development, or this may simply be a typo.
• Gruul : Grull
  • eg. Grull's Lair, Grull the Dragonkiller
• Gryphon: Griffon
• Highborne: Highbourne, Highborn
  • While highborn would be the proper spelling in English, the standard Warcraft spelling is highborne.
  • -borne usually means "held up or supported," whereas -born usually indicates origin or birth. This suggests the Highborne elves received that name because they were held in high regard by their society, possibly due to their magical abilities, rather than inheriting the class at birth.
• Hippogryph: Hypogryph, Hyppogryph, Hippogriff
• Horde: Hord
• Infernal: Infernel
• Kael'thas: Keal'thas
• Karazhan : Kharazan, Karazahn, Karazan
• Khan: Kahn
  • Blizzard themselves have made this mistake. Kolk <The First Kahn>^[sic] drops a Gem of the First Khan.
• Mankrik: Mankirk
• Maraudon: Maruadon, Mauradon
  • Like the word "marauder," which the local centaur often are.
• Menethil: Menithil, Minithil, Menthil, Manethil
• Misspelling: Mispelling
• Notable : Noteable
• Nijel's Point : Nigel's Point
• Ogri'la: Ogila, Ogrilla
• Orgrimmar: Orgrimar, Ogrimar, Ogrimmar
• Outland: Outlands
• Paladin: Paladan, Palladan, Palidan
• Pandaren: Pandaran
• Qiraji: Quiraj, Quiraji
• Razorfen Kraul: Razorfen Krall, Razorfen Crawl
• Refuge Pointe: Refuge Point
• Rogue: Rouge
  • Rouge means "red" in French, or a type of makeup usually applied to the cheeks in English. It is not interchangeable with the WoW class rogue.
• Scholomance: Scholomanse, Scolomance
• Shaman: Shamen Shamman
  • Warcraft generally prefers shaman as a plural, rather than shamans. See Shaman Spelling.
• Shattrath City: Sharttrah City, Shattrah City
• Shadow Labyrinth: "Shadow Labs" is a common abbreviation among players, but it generally should not be used in articles.
• Silithus: Sithilus, Silthus
• Steamvault: Steamvaults
• Stockade: Stockades
  • A Stockade is a prison, in this case; pluralizing it means that you would have more than one prison.
• Tabard: Tabbard, Tabberd, Taberd
• Tarren Mill: Mill Tauren Mill
  • Tarren Mill was introduced in Warcraft II, long before the tauren became part of the lore. There are also barely any tauren at Tarren Mill.
• Taurahe: Taurish
• Tauren: Taurens
• Teldrassil: Teldrasil
• Terokkar Forest: Terrokar Forest, Terrorkar Forest
  • Named after the arrakoa god, Terokk; not related to the word "terror".
• Uldaman: Ulduman, Uldamen
• Uldum: Uldam
• Ventrilo: Ventrillo
• Wailing Caverns: Wailing Caves
• Warlock : Worlock
• Warrior : Worrior
• Worgen : Worgon

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