English words that Japanese people typically tend to confuse:

rice vs. lice, play vs. pray, clap vs. crap, election vs. erection, room vs. loom, right vs. light, lap vs. rap, breast vs blessed, rip vs. lip, Rick vs. lick

Okay, so I could go on and on with a list of these words. These just happen to be the ones that I have run across multiple times since I have been living in Japan, attempting to internationalize.