SPELLING- COMMON ERRORS

 SPELLING- COMMON ERRORS

                         

Rightly spelt- Wrongly spelt words absence – abcense, absance acceptable – acceptible accidentally/accidently – accidentaly accommodate–accomodate, acommodate achieve – acheive acknowledge– acknowlege, aknowledge acquaintance –acquaintence, aquaintance acquire – aquire, adquire address – adress adultery – adultary advisable – adviseable, advizable aggression – agression aggressive – agressive allegiance–allegaince,allegience,alegiance almost – allmost a lot – alot (must be two words), allot amateur – amatuer, amature annually – anually, annualy apparent – apparant, aparent arctic – artic argument – arguement atheist – athiest awful – awfull, aweful because – becuase beautiful – beatuful becoming – becomeing beginning – begining believe – beleive business – buisness calendar – calender camouflage – camoflage, camoflague Caribbean – Carribean category – catagory caught – cauhgt, caugt cemetery – cemetary, cematery changeable – changable chief – cheif colleague – collaegue, collegue column – colum coming – comming committed – commited, comitted comparison – comparsion congratulate – congradulate conscientious – consciencious conscious – concious, consious consensus – concensus controversy – contraversy coolly – cooly deceive – decieve definite – definate,definit definitely – definitly,definately defiantly desperate – desparate difference – diffrence dilemma – dilema disappoint – dissapoint disastrous – disasterous Doctor- docter, doctar drunkenness – drunkeness dumbbell – dumbell embarrass – embarass equipment – equiptment exceed – excede exhilarate – exilerate existence – existance experience – experiance extreme – extreem fascinating – facinating February-febraury fiery – firey fluorescent – flourescent foreign – foriegn friend – freind fulfil – fullfil gauge – guage grateful – gratefull, greatful grammar- grammer guarantee – garantee, garentee, garanty guidance – guidence harass – harrass height – heighth, heigth hierarchy – heirarchy humorous – humerous hygiene – hygene, hygine, higeine, hygeine hypocrisy/hypocrite – hipocrit

Rightly spelt- Wrongly spelt words ignorance – ignorence imitate – immitate immediately – imediately independent – independant indispensable – indispensible intelligence – inteligence, intelligance jewelry (UK: jewellery) – jewelery judgment – judgement leisure – liesure library – libary, liberry license – lisence lightning – lightening maintenance – maintainance, maintnance Mathematics- mathemetics medieval – medeval, medevil, mideval memento – momento millennium – millenium, milennium miniature – miniture mischievous– mischievious,mischevous, mischevious misspell – mispell, misspel necessary – neccessary, necessery niece – neice neighbor – nieghbor noticeable – noticable occasion – occassion occasionally – occasionaly, occasionally occurrence – occurrance, occurence occurred – occured omission – ommision, omision original – orignal parliament – parliment pastime – passtime, pasttime perceive – percieve perseverance – perseverence personnel – personell, personel playwright – playright, playwrite possession – posession, possesion potatoes – potatos presence – presance principle – principal(both are correct&different) privilege – privelege, priviledge professor – professer promise – promiss pronunciation – pronounciation proof – prufe prophecy (as noun) – prophesy (valid as verb) publicly – publically quarantine – quarentine queue – que questionnaire – questionaire, questionnair readable – readible really – realy receive – recieve receipt – reciept recommend – recomend, reccommend reference – referance, refrence relevant – relevent, revelant religious – religous, religius repetition – repitition restaurant – restarant, restaraunt rhyme – rime rhythm – rythm, rythem scissors- scisser secretary – secratary, secretery seize – sieze separate – seperate sergeant – sargent similar – similer skilful – skilfull speech – speach, speeche successful–succesful, successfull, sucessful surprise – suprise, surprize tomatoes – tomatos tomorrow – tommorow, tommorrow twelfth – twelth tyranny – tyrany until – untill usable/useable – usible vacuum – vaccuum, vaccum, vacume vehicle – vehical weather – wether, whether weird – wierd welfare – wellfare, welfair writing – writting, writeing