First Data is a payment processing company, sitting at #295 on the Forbes 500 list. Whether you're writing a check, using a debit card, purchasing online, getting cash back from an ATM, using a credit card or cashing in a gift card—if you're in the states, you may well be utilizing the services of First Data. Clearly, First Data are experts in data, and really know their numbers. Words and letters, however, is an area they could use some more knowledge in.

Knowledge, knowledgeable, knowing, knowledgeably, acknowledgments, acknowledged...know your know words! Hint: if you know knowledge, you can know the rest—add “able” for knowledgeable, and “ac” for acknowledge. And no, knowing has never been so easy! 

Here are two of a possible 303 errors:

restuarants Suggestions: restaurants, restaurant's, restaurant, restraints, restraint's
 (appears 1 times)

knowlege Suggestions: knowledge, Knowles, knowledge's, bowleg, College
 (appears 3 times)

In one of the most ironic twists of the spelling world, “success” or some version of it is one of the most commonly misspelled words on Forbes 500 company websites. Huntsman is a global manufacturer of differentiated chemicals, and had revenues exceeding $10 billion in 2008. Its companies produce 33 billion pounds of products, operate from numerous locations across the globe and employs over 1,200 people—all since its founding in 1970. Yet the company portrays something other than success by having over 1,500 spelling errors on the corporate website. An obviously successful company with a not so successful image of success. Don't let this happen to you!

Here are two of a possible 1,865 errors:

succesful Suggestions: successful, successfully, successively, successive
 (appears 2 times)

betweeen Suggestions: between, tween, betaken, betoken, beaten
 (appears 2 times)

SAIC works with the United States Department of Defense, the United State Department of Homeland Security and the United States Intelligence Community. It is the ninth largest defense contractor in the United States, and of utmost importance in matters of national importance.

So while spelling may not be on the top of their priority list, they made two common spelling mistakes on their site—benefiting and environment. Benefiting has only one “t,” not two, and en-vi-ron-ment is one of those words that you just have to learn. On the other hand, I'd rather SAIC work on projects such as Stargate and write reports for the anthrax attacks than worry about silly spelling matters.

Here are two of a possible 1,884 errors:

benefitting Suggestions: benefit ting, benefit-ting, benefiting, befitting, unfitting
 (appears 1 times)

enviroment Suggestions: Environment, environment, enforcement, increment, informant 
 (appears 1 times)

Heinz is a $10 billion global company, selling more than 650 million bottles of ketchup every year. They’re famous for their “57 varieties” of food products, though today the company offers over 6,000 choices. $10 billion, 650 million bottles of ketchup sold per year, 6,000 products manufactured and only 429 possible spelling errors on the corporate website. “If it isn’t Heinz, it isn’t ketchup,” the saying goes, for what’s a bowl of chips without some delicos dipping sauce?

Here are two of a possible 429 errors:

delicos Suggestions: Delicious, delicious, Felicio's, delirious, Dulci's
 (appears 1 times)

priviledge Suggestions: privilege, privileged, privileges, privilege's
 (appears 1 times)

Qualcomm—Quality Communications—is a wireless telecommunications and research company that plays a central role in the growth of 3G and next-generation wireless around the globe. They promise to provide their employees with all the tools they'll need to get the job done—but one tool that their webmaster lacks is spellr.us. The word “financial” was misspelled on a link, resulting in 7 different occurrences of the error throughout the site.

Here are two of a possible 3,525 errors:

continous Suggestions:continuous, continues, contains, continua, contiguous
 (appears 1 times)

Finacial Suggestions: Financial, Finical, Facial, Finial, Financially 
 (appears 7 times)