We read 8969 tags and found 306 typos. Here are the best ones

An author told us he kept getting soft rejects over tags and could not work out the pattern: "somewhere it's wrong, somewhere it's right." His catalogue had been carrying backround, seriuos and enerhetic for years. An Envato reviewer caught them roughly half the time — and that is the whole story. A typo breaks no rule. It just makes the tag invisible to search, because buyers type background and your item says something else.

Our tag checker could not see this at all. The near-duplicate rule compares a track's tags against each other — it catches inspiring sitting next to inspirational, but a lone typo has nothing to be compared with.

Now it does. There is a new checkbox in the tag-check settings: Misspelled tags.

How the list was built

We took 8969 distinct tags across real catalogues — roughly 32,000 tracks — and pulled out 659 suspected typos. Then a human read every pair, because getting this wrong is expensive: an automated pass calls bunny a typo of funny as readily as it catches backround.

We rejected 353 of them. British and American spellings (colourful, glamour, humourous, mediaeval, synthesiser) are not mistakes and must be left alone. Newer words missing from any reference list: ecommerce, esports, videogames. Names and brands: flume, fender, seoul. And plain rare words unlucky enough to resemble a popular one.

One case showed exactly why the pair has to be reviewed, not the word on its own. Among the suspects was akward → award. But akward is a misspelling of awkward — a completely different word. Autocorrect would have turned "clumsy" into "prize".

That left 306 typos covering 183 words. That is the list.

The most common ones

typo	correct	tracks
intence	intense	75
succsess	success	22
tehnology	technology	15
advertisment	advertisement	15
cheerul	cheerful	14
coocking	cooking	12
backround	background	10
electo	electro	10

Two words turned out to be the hardest to spell. advertising showed up in nine different wrong forms: adertising, adverising, adversing, adverstising, advertsing, advetising, asvertising, avertising, dvertising. And exactly nine for atmospheric: amtospheric, atmopheric, atmopsheric, atmosferic, atmosheric, atmoshperic, atmosperic, atmostheric, atmpspheric.

And the best ones

• ululele instead of ukulele — on a site called epicukulele, this one hurts
• atrificial intellegence — two typos in a single tag
• marry christmas instead of merry christmas — Christmas with a proposal
• santa klaus — Santa, now with German spelling
• mystriouys instead of mysterious — we cannot even reconstruct the keystrokes
• msuic, spped, piamo, hroic, tittle, youtub
• glockenshpiel and glocckenspiel — the glockenspiel is hard to spell as well as to play
• prunk for prank, withes for witches, holywood for hollywood

The most common typos appear across 19 authors and 253 tracks. So this is not rare, and it is not one person being careless.

What Autofix does here

This rule behaves differently from the rest: it corrects the tag instead of removing it. A deleted tag is a lost keyword, and the entire point is to hand you back the spelling buyers actually search for. backround becomes background. If the correct tag is already on the track, you end up with one, not a duplicate.

The rule is off by default. Turn it on in the tag-check settings, run Check Tags, and you will see yours.

What it cannot do

The list only knows the typos we have already seen. A new one will not be caught until we refresh the list from newer data. That is a deliberate trade: the check never touches a word that is not on the list, so it cannot "correct" something real by mistake.

If you hit a misspelling we do not know about, tell us and we will add it.