COMMONLY MISSPELLED WORDS

The spellings given below are for UK spellings. IELTS allows UK and US spelling.

absence apparent caught deposit exhilarate

acceptable arctic ceiling describe existence

accidentally/accid argument cemetery desperate expect

ently
atheist certain develop experience
accommodate
athlete changeable difference experiment
achieve
average chief dilemma explanation
acknowledge
awful citizen disappear extreme
acquaintance
balance colleague disappoint familiar
acquire
basically collectible disastrous fascinating
acquit
because column discipline fiery
acreage
becoming comfortable doable finally
across
before coming does foreign
address
beginning committed drunkenness forty
adultery
believe competition dumbbell forward
advertise
bellwether concede during friend
advice
benefit congratulate easily fulfil
advisable
buoy/buoyant conscientious eight fundamental
affect
breathe conscious either gauge
aggression
brilliant consensus embarrass generally
alcohol
burglar controversy environment government
allege
business convenience equipped grammar
allegiance
calendar coolly equipment grateful
almost
camouflage criticize exaggerate guarantee
a lot
capitol daiquiri exceed guidance
amateur
career deceive excellent happiness
amend
careful decide except harass
among
Caribbean definite exercise height
annually
category definitely exhausted heroes

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hors d'oeuvres liaison often prefer restaurant

humorous library omission prejudice rhyme

hygiene license operate presence rhythm

hypocrisy/hypocrit lightning opportunity principle ridiculous

e
loneliness optimism privilege sacrifice
identity
lose original probably safety
ignorance
losing ought professional scissors
imaginary
lying outrageous professor seize
imitate
maintenance paid promise separate
imitation
manoeuvre parallel pronunciation sergeant
immediately
marriage parliament proof shining
incidentally
mathematics particularly prophecy (as noun) similar
independent
medicine pastime psychology sincerely
indispensable
medieval peculiar publicly skilful
inoculate
memento perceive quantity soldier
intelligence
millennium perform quarantine speech
interesting
miniature permanent quarter stopping
interpretation
minuscule perseverance queue strength
interruption
minute personally questionnaire studying
invitation
misspell personnel quite succeed
irrelevant
mysterious persuade readable successful
irritable
naturally picture realize supersede
island
necessary piece really surely
jealous
niece planning receive surprise
jewellery
neighbour plagiarize receipt temperature
judgment
neither playwright recognize temporary
kernel
noticeable pleasant recommend their
knowledge
occasion political referred through
laboratory
occasionally possession reference tomatoes
leisure
occurrence possible relevant tomorrow
length
occurred potatoes religious tongue
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tries until usually village whether

truly unusual vacuum weather wilful

twelfth upholstery vegetarian weird withhold

tyranny usable/useable vehicle welcome writing

MISPRONUNCIATION

Mispronunciation is known to be one of the most common causes of misspelling.[13] Hence, phonetic misspelling is common,
once a word is mispronounced; for example, the word "realize" is misspelled as "relize".

HOMOPHONES

Two differently spelt words with different meanings may be homophones, with the same pronunciation; e.g., right, rite, and
write; read (most tenses of verb) and reed; read (past, past participle) and red. This list includes only a few homophones
although incorrect use of homophones is a very common error; the following words from the list are all good English words,
though often incorrectly used in place of their homophone: advice, affect, artic (colloquial UK usage for "articulated lorry"),
aweful, breath, calender, capital, lightening, loose, loosing, planing, principal, rime, solider, stoping, they're, and wether. Spelling
checkers do not detect incorrect use of homophones.

PERSONAL NAMES

Personal names and surnames may be pronounced like a standard English word, but with different spelling: "balance" and "John
Ballance"; "war" and "Evelyn Waugh"; "marshal" and "George Marshall".

FOREIGN WORDS

A misspelling in English might be a legitimate spelling in another language; for example, the word "address" is spelled in French
or German as "Adress" (one letter "d"). "Immigrate" can be written "inmigrate" by speakers of Spanish.

STRANGE MISSPELLINGS

Sometimes words are misspelled so strangely that one would never guess. These misspellings are likely to be one-offs. For
example: "sucseessor" for "successor".

CONCATENATION

While "albeit" is a correct concatenation of "all be it", "upto" is not yet a recognised concatenation of "up to". "Alright" is often
accepted for "all right".

APOSTROPHES

To be written

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