Are there words or phrases that are commonly mistyped by native speakers on the Internet?


Like how it is common to see their/there and "could/would/should of" instead
of "could/would/should have" in English discussions.




Due to the way kanji are typed (i.e. using an IME which presents you with
candidates from a dictionary), and the fact that Japanese kana usage is by-
and-large [phonemic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonemic_principle) (i.e.
you write it how you say it), there aren't really many mistakes that are
entirely analogous to your/you're or there/their/they're, etc.

Probably the closest thing is typing something into an IME, then inadvertently
selecting the incorrect candidate from the list (like say accidentally
choosing 以外｛いがい｝ instead of 意外｛いがい｝). This is what is commonly referred to as
a 変換ミス｛へんかんミス｝, or "conversion mistake".

Somewhat of a tangent to that phenomenon is the 打ち｛うち｝間違い｛まちがい｝ページ ("Typo
Page") that you will can find on Japanese websites (I'm not aware of such a
thing for English pages, at least not that's common). These exist primarily to
catch poor candidates produced by IMEs or people who have just completely
misremembered the -- often stylized -- written form of the name of the
website/company they're looking for. You can see a lot of such pages by
searching google for
[打ち間違いページ](https://www.google.com/webhp?ie=UTF-8#q=%E6%89%93%E3%81%A1%E9%96%93%E9%81%95%E3%81%84%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8).

Addition: ssb also points out above a good tangent of people
mislearning/misremembering readings of kanji words, and then not being able to
get the IME to produce appropriate candidates as a result (e.g. ふいんき for
雰囲気｛ふんいき｝). This is, however, relatively uncommon in practice because most
people will note that something's up when their IME doesn't produce the result
they're looking for, or because the IME reinterprets and then effectively
hides the mistake by producing the intended kanji; Google IME, for example,
produces 雰囲気 when typing ふいんき (with a note about correct usage on the side).




Due to the way kanji are typed (i.e. using an IME which presents you with
candidates from a dictionary), and the fact that Japanese kana usage is by-
and-large [phonemic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonemic_principle) (i.e.
you write it how you say it), there aren't really many mistakes that are
entirely analogous to your/you're or there/their/they're, etc.

Probably the closest thing is typing something into an IME, then inadvertently
selecting the incorrect candidate from the list (like say accidentally
choosing 以外｛いがい｝ instead of 意外｛いがい｝). This is what is commonly referred to as
a 変換ミス｛へんかんミス｝, or "conversion mistake".

Somewhat of a tangent to that phenomenon is the 打ち｛うち｝間違い｛まちがい｝ページ ("Typo
Page") that you will can find on Japanese websites (I'm not aware of such a
thing for English pages, at least not that's common). These exist primarily to
catch poor candidates produced by IMEs or people who have just completely
misremembered the -- often stylized -- written form of the name of the
website/company they're looking for. You can see a lot of such pages by
searching google for
[打ち間違いページ](https://www.google.com/webhp?ie=UTF-8#q=%E6%89%93%E3%81%A1%E9%96%93%E9%81%95%E3%81%84%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8).

Addition: ssb also points out above a good tangent of people
mislearning/misremembering readings of kanji words, and then not being able to
get the IME to produce appropriate candidates as a result (e.g. ふいんき for
雰囲気｛ふんいき｝). This is, however, relatively uncommon in practice because most
people will note that something's up when their IME doesn't produce the result
they're looking for, or because the IME reinterprets and then effectively
hides the mistake by producing the intended kanji; Google IME, for example,
produces 雰囲気 when typing ふいんき (with a note about correct usage on the side).

