diff --git a/pandas/io/excel.py b/pandas/io/excel.py
index e2db6643c5ef0..e604cd0f46fa3 100644
--- a/pandas/io/excel.py
+++ b/pandas/io/excel.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 import numpy as np
 
 import pandas._libs.json as json
-from pandas.util._decorators import Appender, deprecate_kwarg
+from pandas.util._decorators import Appender, deprecate_kwarg, validate_kwarg
 from pandas.errors import EmptyDataError
 
 import pandas.compat as compat
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ def get_writer(engine_name):
         raise ValueError("No Excel writer '{engine}'"
                          .format(engine=engine_name))
 
-
+@validate_kwarg()
 @Appender(_read_excel_doc)
 @deprecate_kwarg("parse_cols", "usecols")
 @deprecate_kwarg("skip_footer", "skipfooter")
diff --git a/pandas/util/_decorators.py b/pandas/util/_decorators.py
index 82cd44113cb25..0267c9c21d6ae 100644
--- a/pandas/util/_decorators.py
+++ b/pandas/util/_decorators.py
@@ -5,6 +5,21 @@
 from textwrap import dedent, wrap
 from functools import wraps, update_wrapper, WRAPPER_ASSIGNMENTS
 
+def validate_kwarg():
+    def _validate_kwarg(func):
+        @wraps(func)
+        def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
+            expected_keys=set(['io', 'sheet_name','header', 'names', 'index_col', 'usecols', 'squeeze', 'dtype', 'engine', 
+               'converters', 'true_values',  'false_values', 'skiprows', 'nrows', 'na_values', 'verbose', 'parse_dates',
+               'date_parser', 'thousands', 'comment', 'skipfooter', 'convert_float'])
+
+            if set(kwargs.keys()).difference(expected_keys): 
+                raise ValueError('invalid parameter found')
+
+            return func(*args, **kwargs)
+        return wrapper
+    return _validate_kwarg
+
 
 def deprecate(name, alternative, version, alt_name=None,
               klass=None, stacklevel=2, msg=None):