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8 months ago“Could of” instead of “Could’ve”“Could have” is not a typical mistake people make that have English as their second language.
The fact that you think this needs a citation shows that you are a native speaker.
These might be no high quality sources, but it shows that it is something that non native speakers find weird:
Quora1
Quora2
Reddit
Blog entry about mistakes that native speakers make
Another similar blog
Oh, and here is a PhD thesis where you can see in chapter 5.2 “Error processing cost” that this type of error is more disrupting for non native than for native speakers.