A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
P
- Packed vs pact
- Packs vs pax
- Paddy wagon
- Paean, paeon, peon
- Paid vs. payed
- Pail vs pale
- Pain vs pane
- Paint the town red and paint the town
- Pair vs. pare vs. pear
- Pajamas vs. pyjamas
- Palate, palette, pallet
- Pale in comparison
- Palindrome (poetry)
- Pall vs. pallor
- Palpable vs palatable
- Pan out
- Pander vs ponder
- Panhandle
- Paper tiger
- Paper-thin
- Par excellence
- Par for the course
- Parade float
- Parallel vs perpendicular
- Paralympics
- Paralyse vs. paralyze
- Parameter vs perimeter
- Paramount vs. tantamount
- Paraphernalia
- Pardon my French and excuse my French
- Parentheses (round brackets)
- Parentheses vs brackets
- Pariah vs piranha
- Parish vs perish
- Parkour
- Parlay vs. parley
- Parlor or parlour
- Parody vs parity
- Parol vs parole
- Parricide vs. patricide
- Parsimony
- Part and parcel
- Participial prepositions
- Participles
- Parting shot
- Pass muster
- Pass muster vs pass mustard
- Pass the buck, the buck stops
- Pass the torch and hand on the torch
- Pass with flying colors
- Passable or passible
- Passed vs. past
- Passerbys or passersby
- Passing strange
- Past master
- Paste vs paced
- Pasteurize vs pasteurise
- Pastiche vs pistachio
- Pastime vs past time
- Pasty vs pasty
- Paten vs patten
- Patent leather
- Path of least resistance and line of least resistance.
- Pathetic vs apathetic
- Patience vs patients
- Patient zero
- Patois
- Patriot
- Patriotism vs nationalism
- Patsy
- Patsy
- Patty vs paddy
- Paucity
- Pause vs paws
- Pay it forward
- Pay lip service
- Pay one’s dues
- Pay one’s respects
- Pay the piper
- Pay through the nose
- Payback vs. pay back
- Pea vs pee
- Peace of mind, piece of (one’s) mind
- Peaceable vs. peaceful
- Peak vs. peek vs. pique
- Peal vs. peel
- Peanut gallery
- Pearl vs purl
- Pearls of wisdom
- Peccadillo
- Pecking order
- Peckish
- Pedal vs. peddle vs. petal
- Pediatric or paediatric
- Pediment vs impediment
- Peeping Tom
- Pejorative
- Pell-mell
- Penal vs. penile
- Penance vs pittance
- Penchant vs pension
- Pendant vs. pendent
- Penny for your thoughts
- Penny wise and pound foolish
- Penny-pinching
- Pentagon
- Pentimento vs pimento or pimiento
- Penultimate
- People vs. persons
- People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones
- Peplum vs pablum
- Per diem
- Per se
- Per vs purr
- Percent vs. per cent
- Perchance
- Peremptory vs pre-emptory
- Perfect storm
- Perfect vs perfect
- Perfunctory vs peremptory
- Period (full stop or full point)
- Periodic vs. periodical
- Peripatetic
- Perjury
- Perk vs perq
- Permaculture
- Permit vs permit
- Pernickety vs. persnickety
- Perpetrate vs perpetuate
- Perquisite vs. prerequisite (vs. requisite)
- Persecute vs. prosecute
- Persona non grata
- Personage vs parsonage
- Personal vs personable
- Personal vs personnel
- Personality vs personage vs persona
- Personification vs anthropomorphism
- Perspective vs. prospective
- Persuade vs dissuade
- Peruse
- Pervert vs subvert
- Pet peeve
- Pet vs. petted
- Peter out
- Petrifaction vs. petrification
- Petroglyph vs pictograph
- Pettifogger
- Petulant vs impetuous
- Pharaoh or Pharoah
- Phenomena, phenomenon
- Phial vs. vial (vs. vile)
- Philippic
- Philly vs filly
- Phishing
- Phone it in
- Phony vs. phoney
- Phosphene
- Phosphorous vs. phosphorus
- Photo shoot vs. photoshoot
- Photobomb
- Photogenic vs photographic
- Phrasal adjectives
- Phrasal prepositions
- Phrasal verbs
- Phrases
- Phubbing
- Pica vs pika
- Picaresque vs. picturesque
- Picayune
- Picks, pix or pyx
- Pickup vs. pick up (vs. pick-up)
- Pidgin vs pigeon
- Pie hole
- Pie in the sky
- Pie vs pi
- Piece of cake
- Piece vs peace
- Piecemeal
- Pied Piper
- Pig in a poke
- Pig Latin
- Pigeonhole
- Piggy bank
- Piggyback
- Pin money
- Pincer vs. pincher
- Pink slip
- Pipe down and pipe up
- Pipe dream
- Piping hot
- Pipsqueak
- Pissant
- Pistol vs pistil
- Pit stop
- Pitch-perfect and picture-perfect
- Pitchblende
- Pitcher vs picture
- Pith vs pit
- Pithy
- Pixelated vs. pixilated
- Pièce de résistance
- Placate vs placket
- Place card vs placard
- Placebo vs nocebo
- Plain sailing, smooth sailing, and clear sailing
- Plain vs. plane
- Plainclothes
- Plaintiff vs defendant
- Plaintive vs plaintiff
- Plait vs plate
- Plan B
- Plantar vs planter
- Plaque vs plack
- Plateaus vs. plateaux
- Platypi vs platypuses
- Play by ear
- Play cat and mouse and play a game of cat and mouse
- Play fast and loose
- Play for keeps
- Play gooseberry
- Play one’s cards right
- Play possum
- Play second fiddle
- Playing Russian roulette
- Playing with fire
- Playwright vs. playwrite
- Pleaded vs. pled
- Please vs pleas
- Pleather and Naugahyde
- Plenary vs preliminary
- Plenitude vs. plentitude
- Plethora
- Pleural vs plural
- Plough vs. plow
- Plug-ugly vs pug-ugly
- Plum vs. plumb
- Plutocrat vs autocrat
- Podcast
- Podium vs lectern
- Poetic justice
- Poetry vs prose
- Pogrom vs genocide
- Point in time
- Point of no return
- Point of view, standpoint, viewpoint
- Poisoning the well
- Poisonous vs venomous
- Poker face
- Pole vs poll
- Polemic vs. polemical
- Polish vs polish
- Polite company and polite society
- Politics
- Polka dot
- Pollyanna
- Poly- vs mono-
- Polygamy vs. polygyny vs. polyandry
- Pompom vs. pompon (vs. pom-pom etc.)
- Ponderous
- Pony up
- Ponzi scheme and Ponzi game
- Poo vs. pooh
- Poof, pouf or pouffe
- Pooh-bah or poobah
- Pooh-poohed
- Pooped
- Poor sport, sore loser and sore winner
- Poor-mouth vs bad-mouth
- Pop culture
- Pop one’s clogs
- Pop the question
- Popinjay
- Poppycock
- Populace vs. populous
- Porch vs veranda or verandah
- Pore over vs. pour over
- Pore, pour or poor
- Pork barrel
- Port vs. starboard
- Portend vs pretend
- Portend vs. portent
- Poseur vs poser
- Possibility vs probability
- Post-truth
- Poster child
- Postpositive adjectives
- Potato and potatoes, tomato and tomatoes
- Potentiality
- Potluck
- Potter’s field
- POTUS
- Pound of flesh
- Pour cold water on and throw cold water on
- Powwow
- Pox
- Practicable vs. practical
- Practical joke
- Practice vs. practise
- Practice what you preach
- Pragmatism
- Praise vs prays
- Praise vs preys
- Prank call or crank call
- Pray vs. prey
- Preaching to the choir
- Prebiotic vs probiotic
- Precede vs. proceed
- Precedence vs precedents
- Precipitate vs precipitous
- Precocious vs precious
- Predicate nominatives
- Predict vs predicate
- Predominantly and predominately
- Premier vs. premiere
- Premonitory vs promontory
- Preposition vs. proposition
- Prepositions
- Prescient vs present
- Prescribe vs. proscribe
- Present company excepted vs present company accepted
- Present progressive tense
- Present vs present
- Preserve vs persevere
- President (capitalization)
- Press the flesh
- Presumptive vs. presumptuous
- Pretence vs. pretense
- Pretentious vs portentous
- Preternatural vs supernatural
- Preventative vs. preventive
- Previous vs. prior
- Price gouging
- Pride comes before a fall and pride goeth before a fall
- Pride vs pried
- Prima donna
- Primal scream
- Primrose path
- Principal vs. principle
- Prioritize vs prioritise
- Privatization vs nationalization
- Privy
- Prize, prise or pries
- Proactive
- Probity vs improbity
- Problematic vs. problematical
- Procrastinate
- Prodigal and prodigy
- Prodigal son
- Prodigious vs prolific
- Produce vs produce
- Profit vs prophet
- Progeny vs prodigy
- Program vs. programme
- Project vs project
- Proliferate vs profligate
- Prom and The Proms
- Promise vs premise
- Promulgate vs propagate
- Prone, prostrate, supine
- Pronouns
- Proof by example
- Proof is in the pudding
- Prophecy vs. prophesy
- Propitiate vs expiate
- Proportional vs. proportionate
- Proprietary vs propitiatory
- Props
- Prorogue vs prolong
- Prostate vs. prostrate
- Protagonist, antagonist
- Protean vs protein
- Protégé
- Proved vs. proven
- Proverb vs adage
- Proverbial vs figurative
- Providence vs province
- Province vs provenance
- Proviso
- Proximal vs proximate
- Psalter vs salter
- Pseudo
- Psych vs. psyche
- Psychiatry vs. psychology
- Psychopath vs. sociopath
- Pugnacious
- Pull a fast one
- Pull one’s punches
- Pull one’s weight
- Pull out all the stops
- Pull rank
- Pull strings
- Pull the plug
- Pull the rug out from under
- Pull the wool over someone’s eyes
- Pull up stakes and up sticks
- Pulling one’s leg
- Pullout, pull-out, pull out
- Punch list
- Punctilious vs punctual
- Pundit
- Pupal vs pupil
- Puppy love or poppy love
- Pure as the driven snow
- Purple prose
- Purpose vs porpoise
- Purposely vs. purposefully
- Push someone’s buttons
- Push the envelope
- Pushing up daisies
- Pusillanimous
- Pussy vs pussy
- Put a damper on
- Put on heirs or airs
- Put on hold
- Put on ice
- Put one’s best foot forward
- Put one’s cards on the table and lay one’s cards on the table
- Put one’s finger on something
- Put something on the map
- Put the cart before the horse
- Put two and two together
- Put up or shut up
- Put up with
- Put up your dukes
- Put words in someone’s mouth
- Put, strap, or tie on the feedbag and put, strap, or tie on the nosebag
- Putative vs punitive
- Putrefaction
- Putting vs putting
- Putty in one’s hands
- Pyrrhic victory
Q
- Qua
- Quackery
- Quaff vs coif
- Qualitative vs. qualitive
- Qualitative, quantitative
- Quality time
- Qualm vs calm
- Quantitative vs. quantitive
- Quantum
- Quarts vs quartz
- Quash vs. squash
- Quasi
- Quay
- Que sera sera
- Quelch vs. squelch
- Query vs inquiry
- Question mark
- Quicksilver
- Quid pro quo
- Quince vs quints
- Quire vs choir
- Quisling
- Quiver vs quaver
- Quixotic
- Quotation marks
- Quote vs quotation
- Quote-unquote
#
- A pat on the back
- A penny saved is a penny earned
- A picture is worth a thousand words
- A piece of work
- a.m. and p.m.
- Annual, perennial or biennial
- Apart vs a part
- As pleased as Punch
- Bathos vs pathos
- Benefactor vs patron
- Bisexual or pansexual
- Burst one’s bubble and pop one’s bubble
- Can of worms vs pandora’s box
- Cannot see the forest for the trees
- Car park vs parking lot
- Cay, quay and key
- Decathlon, heptathlon, pentathlon, triathlon and biathlon
- Dichotomy vs paradox
- Didactic vs pedantic
- Do a Houdini and pull a Houdini
- Dominant vs predominant
- Downplay or play down
- Epidemic vs pandemic
- Epidemic vs pandemic
- Equator vs prime meridian
- Equivocate vs prevaricate
- Faro, farrow or pharaoh
- Few vs phew
- File, phial or faille
- Finger-pointing and point the finger
- First, second and third person
- Fiscal vs physical
- Flocks vs phlox
- From pillar to post
- Futz vs putz
- Have one’s ears pinned back vs pin one’s ears back
- Impecunious and pecunious
- In point of fact or in fact or as a matter of fact
- Like pulling teeth
- p.d.q.
- Repugnant vs pungent
- Round robin
- Say one’s peace vs piece
- Schmuck versus putz
- Share and share alike vs per stirpes
- Sisyphean, Promethean or Herculean
- Solitaire and patience games
- Stand up vs prop up
- Stroller or pushchair
- Take with a grain of salt and take with a pinch of salt
- The pen is mightier than the sword
- The penny dropped
- The pick of the litter
- The pot calling the kettle black
- The quick and the dead
- Thoroughbred vs purebred
- Tomayto, tomahto and potayto, potahto
- Tween
- Verbatim vs paraphrase
- Wallop and pack a wallop
- When pigs fly and pigs might fly
- Work in progress vs work in process
- Yank, jerk, or pull someone’s chain