Last night, someone started to read the word "needless" as "needles" - the difference is subtle, and I hadn't focused on it before.
One measly little "s" also makes the difference between "laughter" and "slaughter" - although people don't generally confuse those words in reading because the extra "s" is right upfront at the beginning of the word.
My own perennial favorites have been "uniformed" (which I like to read as "uninformed") and "to let" (which on first sight, I read as "toilet" - boldly advertised in the U.K.).
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