Most Commonly Misspelled English Words
Study carefully the following words which are usually mis-spelt
Commonly Misspelled Words Start with ‘A’
- Accept
- acceptance
- achieve
- accident
- accompany
- accordance
- accuse
- acquaint
- acquaintance
- acquit
- acquitted
- across
- actually
- addition
- address
- admission
- advantageous
- advice (v.)
- advise (n.) advisable
- adviser
- aeroplane
- affair
- affect
- affectionately
- afraid
- agree
- agreement
- agreeable
- allowance
- Almighty
- all tight
- altogether
- always ambassador
- ancient
- angel
- angle
- anger
- angry
- announce
- annual
- annually
- anxiety
- anxious
- apology
- apologise
- appearance
- appoint
- appointment
- approach
- argue
- argument
- arithmetic
- around
- arrange
- arrive
- arrival
- asleep
- astonish
- attack
- attempt
- attract
- august,- autumn
- avoid
- awake
- awe
- awful
- awkward.
Commonly Misspelled Words Start with ‘B’
- Bachelor
- backward
- balloon
- bamboo
- banana
- bangle
- banish
- banker
- bargain
- barley
- barren
- bathe
- battery
- battle
- beard
- beautiful
- beggar
- begging
- beginning
- behalf
- behave
- behaviour
- belief
- believe
- below
- beneath
- beneficent
- beneficence
- beneficial
- besiege
- berth
- better
- between
- beware
- bicycle
- biscuit
- bitter
- blanket
- blessing
- blood
- boarding
- boast
- bomb
- borrow
- bom
- borne
- bosom
- bottle
- bought
- boundary
- bow
- brave
- bravery
- breadth
- breakfast
- breathe
- breeze
- brick
- bridegroom
- bride
- brief
- brought
- brother
- buffalo
- build
- bundle
- bunch (bench)
- burial
- bury
- business
- button
- buzz.
Commonly Misspelled Words Start with ‘C’
- Candle
- cannot (not: can not)
- captain
- carriage
- caste
- cattle
- catch
- caught
- cease
- celebrate
- centre
- century
- ceremony
- certain
- certificate
- challenge
- character
- cheerful
- chief
- children
- chimney
- choose
- choice
- cholera
- christain
- Christmas
- cigarette
- cinema
- circle
- circus
- citizen
- civilisation
- clerk
- climb
- clock
- clothe
- college
- colour
- column
- comb
- commander
- commence
- company
- comparison
- competition
- complain
- complement
- commercial
- commissioner
- commit
- committed
- committee
- common
- companion
- complete
- compliment
- conclude
- conclusion
- conduct
- confess
- conquer(or)
- conquest
- conscience
- conscientious
- conscious
- continue
- control
- controlled
- controller
- correspondence
- cottage
- cough
- council
- counsel
- cricket
- a curtain.
Commonly Misspelled Words Start with ‘D’
- Dairy
- daughter
- death
- debt
- debtor
- deceit
- deceive
- December
- decision
- defence
- degree
- defiance
- defy
- delay
- delicious
- departure
- dependent
- depot
- depth
- derive
- description
- determine
- develop
- devour
- diary
- die
- differ
- difference
- discourage
- discuss
- disease
- disguise
- divide
- division
- double
- doubt.
Commonly Misspelled Words Start with ‘E’
- Eclipse
- edge
- educate
- eighth
- eighteen
- either
- elder
- eleven
- embarrass
- emperor
- empress
- enemy
- engine
- engineer
- enmity
- enough
- envelope
- equally
- err
- error
- escape
- exact
- excess
- excellent
- except
- experience
- explain
- explanation
- eye.
Commonly Misspelled Words Start with ‘F’
- Failure
- familiar
- famous
- farther (further)
- fashion
- fasten
- fault
- favour
- favourite
- feather
- February
- fetch
- fever
- fiery
- figure
- film
- fitted
- flattery
- float
- flock
- food
- floor
- flourish
- flower
- flew
- foreign
- foreigner
- forgotten
- forty
- fortunate
- fought
- fountain
- freedom
- friend
- fruit
- fulfil
- fulfilled
- fully
- future.
Commonly Misspelled Words Start with ‘G’
- Gather
- general
- generally
- gentle
- glorious
- goddess
- good-bye
- governor
- governess
- government
- grammar
- grief
- group
- guard
- guardian
- guess
- guidance
- guide
- guest
- guilt.
Commonly Misspelled Words Start with ‘H’
- Hammer
- handful
- handkerchief
- handle
- happen
- harass
- hasten
- healthy
- heaven
- hero
- heroine
- hers (not: her’s)
- hidden
- height
- hindrance
- hockey
- holiday
- honest
- honour
- horrible
- horror
- hour
- hotel
- humble
- hundred
- hunger
- hungry
- hurrah
- hurriedly,
Commonly Misspelled Words Start with ‘I’
- Ideal
- idle
- idiot
- idol
- impossible
- incident
- incite
- increase
- independent
- industrious
- inferior
- influence
- influential
- innings
- innocent
- inquire
- inquiry
- insincere
- inspector
- instead
- intelligence
- intention
- interesting
- interference
- interview
- invention
- its (not: it’s).
Commonly Misspelled Words Start with ‘J’
- January
- jealous
- jeer
- jewel
- jewellery
- journey
- judge
- judgement
- juggler
- juice
- jungle
- justice.
Commonly Misspelled Words Start with ‘K’
- Key
- kitchen
- knee
- kneel
- knelt
- knife
- knot
- knowledge,
Commonly Misspelled Words Start with ‘L’
- Laboratory
- labour
- laborious
- ladies
- latter (later)
- laughter
- lawyer
- lay (laid)
- layer
- laziness
- lead
- (led) leaf
- leaves
- learned
- least
- leather
- leave
- lecture
- lesson (lessen)
- letter
- liable
- lion
- library
- lick
- lie
- liquid
- listen
- little
- lonely
- loose (lose)
- lottery
- lovable
- lovely
- lucky
- luckily
- lying.
Commonly Misspelled Words Start with ‘M’
- Magistrate
- magnificent
- magnificence
- malaria
- manage
- mangoes
- manner
- marble
- marriage
- married
- match
- mathematics
- meant
- measure
- meet (met)
- medal
- meddle
- medicine
- memory
- memorise
- merchant
- merciful
- merry
- merriment
- message
- messenger
- metal
- middle
- mighty
- military
- minute
- miserable
- misery
- missed
- mistress
- mixture
- mock
- moderate
- modem
- Monday
- money
- monkey
- month
- mosquito(es)
- mountain
- movable
- muddy
- municipal
- muscle
- murderer
- murmur
- museum
- musician
- mutual
- murder.
Commonly Misspelled Words Start with ‘N’
- Naked
- narrow
- naturally
- necessary
- necessarily
- necessity
- needful
- negligence
- negligible
- neigh
- neighbour
- neither
- nephew
- nicker
- niece
- nineteen
- ninety* ninth
- noble
- nobility
- noise
- noisy
- November
- now-a-days.
Commonly Misspelled Words Start with ‘O’
- Oath
- obedience
- obediently
- obey
- obtain
- occasion
- occasionally
- occur
- occurred
- occurrence
- ocean
- o’clock
- October
- offence
- offer
- omit
- omitted
- omission
- opinion
- opium
- opportunity
- oppose
- oppress
- orange
- orator
- orchard
- ordinary
- organiser
- original
- ornament
- ours (not: our’s)
- owe
- own
- owner
- oxen.
Commonly Misspelled Words Start with ‘P’
- Painful
- painter
- palace
- palatial
- palm
- parcel
- pardon
- parrot
- particle
- particular
- partner
- passage
- patient
- patience
- patriotism
- pay (paid)
- peace
- peaceful
- peon
- people
- perhaps
- period
- permit
- permission
- perseverance
- persistent
- personally
- persuade
- picture
- piece
- pioneer
- pierce
- pigeon
- pillow
- pilot
- piteous
- pitiful
- plague
- plan
- planned
- platform
- played
- player
- please
- pleasant
- pleasure
- plough
- poison
- poisonous
- police
- pump
- popular
- portrait
- possess
- possessed
- possession
- possibly
- potato
- potatoes
- power
- practice practicable
- prayer
- precious
- preferable
- preference
- preparation
- president
- pretty
- priest
- primary
- princess
- principal
- principle
- prison
- prisoner
- profit
- profited
- profitable
- proud,
Commonly Misspelled Words Start with ‘Q’
- Quarrel
- quarrelled
- question
- quick
- quiet
- quiet
- quinine.
Commonly Misspelled Words Start with ‘R’
- Radio
- raise
- rarely
- rather
- ready
- reality
- really
- receive
- receipt
- reception
- recipient
- referred
- register
- regular
- reign
- rein
- rejoice
- relation
- release
- rely
- repeat
- repetition
- require
- riches
- righteous
- riot
- risen
- rival
- roll
- rolling
- rubber
- rudely
- runner
- rupee.
Commonly Misspelled Words Start with ‘S’
- Sacred
- sacrifice
- safety
- satchel
- sailor
- Saturday
- said
- scene
- scenery
- scent
- scholar
- school
- scout
- scream
- screen
- search
- season
- secretary
- seize
- senior
- sense
- sensible
- separate
- several
- shadow
- sheep
- shepherd
- shining
- shirt
- shoes
- shock
- shoulder
- shout
- shower
- siege
- sieve
- sigh
- sign
- signature
- simply
- sincere
- sincesely
- single
- sitting
- sixty
- sixteen
- sixth
- soldier
- sorrow
- soul
- speech
- spinning
- spirit
- spread
- steal
- steel
- stick
- stuck
- straight
- strength
- strike
- struck
- struggle
- succeed
- successful
- suffering
- suddenly
- sufficient
- superior
- supper
- supervisor
- surely
- swear
- sweet
- sweetmeat
- swimmer
- sympathy
- sympathetic
- sympathise.
Commonly Misspelled Words Start with ‘T’
- Tailor
- talked
- telephone
- temper
- tenant
- *ennis
- terrible
- terror
- theirs (not : their’s)
- thicket
- thief
- thought
- thirsty
- thirteen
- though
- thousand
- through
- thrown
- thrust
- thunder
- Thursday
- tie
- toes
- together
- tomorrow
- topped
- touch
- traveller
- trick
- trolley
- truly
- Tuesday
- turban
- twelve
- twelfth
- twice.
Commonly Misspelled Words Start with ‘U’
- Umbrella
- umpire
- uncle
- underneath
- union
- unity
- unless
- until
- upper
- useful
- usually
- utter
- utterance.
Commonly Misspelled Words Start with ‘V’
- Vacation
- valuable
- vanish
- vegetable
- viceroy
- vicious
- victory
- victorious
- view
- violent
- violate
- virture
- virtuous
- visitor
- volley-ball
- villain
- voice
- voyage
- voted
- vow
- vulture.
Commonly Misspelled Words Start with ‘W’
- Waist
- waste
- waiter
- watchman
- weak (week)
- wealth
- weather (whether)
- weave
- wedding. Wednesday
- weight
- welcome
- welfare
- well-to-do
- wheel
- whom
- wherever
- which
- whisper
- whistle
- whole
- wholly
- whose
- wicket
- widow
- widower
- width
- willing
- winning
- window
- wisdom
- withhold
- wolf
- wonderful
- woollen
- world
- worry
- worried
- worse
- worst
- wound
- wreck
- wretched
- wrestle
- wrinkle
- wrist
- write
- wrote
- written
- writing.
Commonly Misspelled Words Start with ‘Y’
- Year
- yellow
- yesterday
- yield
- yoke
- young
- youth
- yours (not: your’s).
a) The following words are written separately:
All right, at once, at all, in spite of, do not, at least, all round.
(b) Note the spelling of the following verbs in the past tense: Benefited slipped, preferred, vomited, quarrelled, differed, offered, pitied, permitted, agreed, argued, robbed, caught, taught, begged, thought, borrowed, carried, stopped, chose, crossed, died, dealt, deceived, believed, wrote.
Exercise 1: Below are given words with three different spellings each. Pick out the correct spelling of each word and write it down as your answer in the brackets provided:
- alloted, allotted, alotted. ( )
- separate, seperate, saparate ( )
- tution, tuition, fusion ( )
- machinary, machinery, mechinary ( )
- receive, receeve, recieve ( )
- liabrary, library, liberary ( )
- barristar, barristor, barrister ( )
- adviser, advisor, advisar ( )
- begining, beginning, bigning ( )
- exarcise, exercise, excercise ( )
- excise, exise, excize ( )
- committee, comittee, commitee ( )
- occured, occurred, ocurred ( )
- quarelled, quarrelled, quareled ( )
- calculates calculatar, calculator ( )
- believe, believe, beleeve ( )
- repitition, repetition, repeatition ( )
- Confidance, confidense, confidence ( )
- ocean, oceon, oation ( )
- rememberence, remembrance, remembrence. ( )
- jewelery, jewellery, jewellary ( )
- museum, museeum, museam
- neece, niece, neice
- arithmatic, arethmatic, arithmetic
- accident, accidant. acceedant
- transister, transistor, transistar
- majistrate, magistrat, magistrate
- organisar, organisor, organiser
- superviser, supervisar, supervisor
- interruption, interraption, interrupsion
Exercise 2: Complete the following words by adding -ance, -ence, -ense.
- Clear___________
- Experi___________
- evid___________
- susp___________
- occurr___________
- entr___________
- pret___________
- accept___________
- remembr___________
- guid___________
- exist___________
- allow___________
- attend___________
- presever___________
- assur___________
- consci___________
- refer___________
- nuis___________
- comm___________
- defi___________
- ignor___________
- subst___________
- influ___________
- nons___________
- griev___________
- appear___________
- interfer___________
- alli___________
- prefer___________
- resembl___________
Exercise 3: Complete the following words by adding -ary, -ery, or -ory.
- green ___________
- bound ___________
- dormit ___________
- cemet ___________
- gall ___________
- vict ___________
- dysent ___________
- milit ___________
- diction ___________
- begg ___________
- secret ___________
- advis ___________
- batt ___________
- second ___________
- surg ___________
- scen ___________
- introduc ___________
- flatt ___________
- fact ___________
- prim ___________
- febru ___________
- brav ___________
- libr ___________
- lavat ___________
- myst ___________
- necess ___________
- brib ___________
- ordin ___________
- supervis ___________
- lott ___________
Exercise 4: Insert -ei, -ie, -ea, or -ee, as the case may be in each blank
- Sl ___________ve
- br ___________f
- Ch ___________p
- S___________ ve
- bel ___________ ve
- cr ___________ ture
- rec ___________ pt
- car ___________ r
- decr ___________
- fr ___________ nd
- carr ___________ r
- dr ___________ m
- for ___________ gner
- r ___________ gn
- h ___________ lthy
- n ___________ ghbour
- w ___________ ght
- misch ___________ vous
- s ___________ ze
- sh ___________ ld
- w ___________ ther
- ch ___________ f
- kn ___________l
- qu ___________ t
- th ___________ f
- scr ___________ m
- st ___________ p
- dec ___________ ve
- d ___________ th
- consc ___________ nce