Ecolab is a global leader in cleaning, sanitizing, food safety and infection control products and services. They made over $6 billion in global sales in 2007 and are ranked #403 on the Fortune 500 list. The company provides sanitation, pest control supplies, food service equipment repair and parts, services and consulting all around the world. Yet they seem to have a bit of trouble keeping things tidy on their own website; help yourself before you help others, or so the saying goes.

Absorption, misspelled 14 times on their site, is a mess they just may want to clean up.

Here are two of a possible 3,051 errors:

absorbtion Suggestions: absorption, absolution, absorbing
 (appears 14 times)

Commitee Suggestions: Committee, Commuter, Commute, Commit
 (appears 1 times)

 “The information needed to make economic-transaction decisions must be timelier and more accurate than ever before,” states the First American Corporation website. However, this financial services company could certainly take a lesson or two from ANZ, who most certainly understand the importance of getting things right—even when it comes to spelling. "Mortgage. M-o-r-t-g-a-g-e. Mortgage." Accommodation, spelled with TWO c's and TWO m's, is misspelled on the website in the real estate term glossary. 

Here are two of a possible 4,933 errors:

mortage Suggestions: mort age, mort-age, mortgage, montage, Portage
 (appears 5 times)

Accomodation Suggestions: Accommodation, Accommodations, Accommodating, Accommodation's 
 (appears 1 times)

Emcor is a global leader in mechanical and electrical construction, giving life to new structures and sustaining life in existing ones. They had no problems winning awards such as Top 100 Global Outsouring Leader, Top Green 50 Sourcing Vendors, World's Most Admired Company in the Engineering/Construction Category, Top 600 Specialty Contractors and more. A bit more challenging, however, was competing for the Least Amount of Errors on Corporate Website Award, with over 2,000 possible errors and some rather obvious mistakes listed below. What's worse, they're setting a bad example for children by having spelling mistakes on a page designed for kids. The misspelled word is in bold! 

Here are two of a possible 2,368 errors:

Chemcial Suggestions: Chemical, Chemically, Commercial, Chummily, Chinchilla
 (appears 1 times)

Challege Suggestions: Ch allege, Ch-allege, Challenge, Chalker, Challenger
 (appears 3 times)

Hormel Foods is a multinational manufacturer and marketer of food and meat products for consumers around the world. They produce spam!

More importantly, however, the Hormel website dedicates an entire section to "Corporate Responsibility: Rooted in Integrity, Guided by Motivation." Unfortunately, the $6 billion company is not responsible enough to look after its own website, spelling the word itself incorrectly 11 times. Verrrrrry curious....

Here are two of a possible 2,192 errors:

responsiblity Suggestions: responsibility, responsibly, responsibility's, irresponsibility, responsible 
 (appears 11 times)

curiousity Suggestions: curiosity, curiously, Cristy, crusty, curiosity's
 (appears 2 times)

"Quest Diagnostics is People. Dedicated people who understand that behind every speciman and result there is human life." Well, behind every itch (or is it scratch?) there is mosquito life, and they have feelings, too!

To form the plural of nouns ending with an "o" preceded by a consonant, ad "es." (pronounced "z" such as heroes, potatoes and volcanoes). There are exceptions, however: pianos, cantos, quartos, kimonos, kangaroos, videos...OK, so there are a lot of exceptions. OK, so actually the rule goes...ask a dictionary. spellr.us to the rescue! The Melon team emerges as heroes once again.

Here are two of a possible 693 errors:

mosquitos Suggestions: mosquito's, mosquitoes, mosquito, mesquites, mesquite's
 (appears 1 times)

adminstrative Suggestions: administrative, demonstrative, administrate, administratively, administrating
 (appears 1 times)