Are you looking for the most commonly misspelled words? Well, I was looking for them too and after a few days of hunting tactics, I have a list for you. Make sure you pick up the correct words and not get confused with the wrong ones.
Alright, so everywhere you look on the web you will find a really long list of wrongly spelled words. But I felt the list could be far more streamlined. I may be a writer, but it’s thanks to spell check that one may not find typos in the content. Instead of giving you a list, and making it so easy, let’s take a quiz with MCQs. Mind you, these are the 20 most common ones in the English language. Try it out. Let’s get started then?
A Quiz on Words Spelled Incorrectly in English
Group 1 | Group 2 |
a) accommodate b) acommodate c) accommodat d) accammodate |
a) deductible b) deductable c) deductuble d) deductabel |
Group 3 | Group 4 |
a) embarras b) embaras c) embarass d) embarrass |
a) foreward b) forword c) forworde d) foreword |
Group 5 | Group 6 |
a) indispensabel b) indispensible c) indispensable d) indespensible |
a) judgement b) judgment c) judgemant d) judgmant |
Group 7 | Group 8 |
a) liason b) liasson c) liasone d) liaison |
a) occassion b) ocassion c) occasion d) ocasion |
Group 9 | Group 10 |
a) perserverance b) persaverence c) perserverence d) perseverance |
a) procede b) proceede c) proced d) proceed |
Group 11 | Group 12 |
a) business b) bizineess c) busyness d) besniss |
a) envirement b) enviornment c) environment d) enviarmint |
Group 13 | Group 14 |
a) facinating b) fascinating c) fasenating d) fassinating |
a) beleive b) bilieve c) bileive d) believe |
Group 15 | Group 16 |
a) dilemma b) dillemma c) dillema d) dilema |
a) excersize b) exercise c) excercize d) exersize |
Group 17 | Group 18 |
a) consensus b) concensus c) consencus d) consenssus |
a) inadvertant b) inadvartant c) inadvartent d) inadvertent |
Group 19 | Group 20 |
a) prerogative b) perogative c) perogitive d) preragitive |
a) rime b) ryme c) rhime d) rhyme |
If you get the correct answers for more than 15 of these MCQs, then, you need not worry about being prone to this. Here are the answers.
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There are more words that you could go wrong with; here they are:
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Hope this article helped you get rid of some confusion regarding a few spellings. This is where I sign off! A bientôt!