While it’s important for you to speak English correctly, it’s equally important to spell the English words correctly, while you write them down. In fact, while taking defence exams, it’s common for you to solve questions from the topic named ‘Spelling’ where you need to identify the correctly spelled word or an incorrect one, from the given options. However, most of the times, students fail to remember the correct spellings of certain words and tend to commit mistakes. Here, in this article, you are going to find the most commonly misspelled words, their usual incorrect forms and their correct forms too.
| Correct spelling | Spelling advice | Common misspelling |
| accommodate, accommodation | two cs, two ms | accomodate, accomodation |
| achieve | i before e | acheive |
| across | one c | accross |
| aggressive, aggression | two gs | agressive, agression |
| apparently | -ent not -ant | apparantly |
| appearance | ends with -ance | appearence |
| argument | no e after the u | arguement |
| assassination | two double s’s | assasination |
| basically | ends with -ally | basicly |
| beginning | double n before the -ing | begining |
| believe | i before e | beleive, belive |
| bizarre | one z, double -r | bizzare |
| business | begins with busi- | buisness |
| calendar | -ar not -er | calender |
| caribbean | one r, two bs | Carribean |
| cemetery | ends with -ery | cemetary |
| chauffeur | ends with -eur | chauffer |
| colleague | -ea- in the middle | collegue |
| coming | one m | comming |
| committee | double m, double t, double e | commitee |
| completely | ends with -ely | completly |
| conscious | -sc- in the middle | concious |
| curiosity | -os- in the middle | curiousity |
| definitely | -ite- not –ate- | definately |
| dilemma | -mm- not -mn- | dilemna |
| disappear | one s, two ps | dissapear |
| disappoint | one s, two ps | dissapoint |
| ecstasy | ends with –sy | ecstacy |
| embarrass | two rs, two s’s | embarass |
| environment | n before the m | enviroment |
| existence | ends with -ence | existance |
| Fahrenheit | begins with Fahr- | Farenheit |
| familiar | ends with -iar | familar |
| finally | two ls | finaly |
| fluorescent | begins with fluor- | florescent |
| foreign | e before i | foriegn |
| foreseeable | begins with fore- | forseeable |
| forty | begins with for- | fourty |
| forward | begins with for- | foward |
| friend | i before e | freind |
| further | begins with fur- | futher |
| gist | begins with g- | jist |
| glamorous | -mor- in the middle | glamourous |
| government | n before the m | goverment |
| guard | begins with gua- | gaurd |
| happened | ends with -ened | happend |
| harass, harassment | one r, two s’s | harrass, harrassment |
| honorary | -nor- in the middle | honourary |
| humorous | -mor- in the middle | humourous |
| idiosyncrasy | ends with -asy | idiosyncracy |
| immediately | ends with -ely | immediatly |
| incidentally | ends with -ally | incidently |
| independent | ends with -ent | independant |
| interrupt | two rs | interupt |
| irresistible | ends with -ible | irresistable |
| knowledge | remember the d | knowlege |
| liaise, liaison | remember the second i: liais- | liase, liason |
| lollipop | i in the middle | lollypop |
| millennium, millennia | double l, double n | millenium, millenia |
| neanderthal | ends with -thal | Neandertal |
| necessary | one c, two s’s | neccessary |
| noticeable | remember the middle e | noticable |
| occasion | two cs, one s | ocassion, occassion |
| occurred, occurring | two cs, two rs | occured, occuring |
| occurrence | two cs, two rs, -ence not -ance | occurance, occurence |
| pavilion | one l | pavillion |
| persistent | ends with -ent | persistant |
| pharaoh | ends with -aoh | pharoah |
| piece | i before e | peice |
| politician | ends with -cian | politican |
| Portuguese | ends with –guese | Portugese |
| possession | two s’s in the middle and two at the end | posession |
| preferred, preferring | two rs | prefered, prefering |
| propaganda | begins with propa- | propoganda |
| publicly | ends with –cly | publically |
| really | two ls | realy |
| receive | e before i | recieve |
| referred, referring | two rs | refered, refering |
| religious | ends with -gious | religous |
| remember | -mem- in the middle | rember, remeber |
| resistance | ends with -ance | resistence |
| sense | ends with -se | sence |
| separate | -par- in the middle | seperate |
| siege | i before e | seige |
| successful | two cs, two s’s | succesful |
| supersede | ends with -sede | supercede |
| surprise | begins with sur- | suprise |
| tattoo | two ts, two os | tatoo |
| tendency | ends with -ency | tendancy |
| therefore | ends with -fore | therefor |
| threshold | one h in the middle | threshhold |
| tomorrow | one m, two rs | tommorow, tommorrow |
| tongue | begins with ton-, ends with -gue | tounge |
| truly | no e | truely |
| unforeseen | remember the e after the r | unforseen |
| unfortunately | ends with -ely | unfortunatly |
| until | one l at the end | untill |
| weird | e before i | wierd |
| wherever | one e in the middle | whereever |
| which | begins with wh- | wich |
Now that you know the wrong ones from the correct ones, try to follow the correctly spelled words, use them carefully while you write or solve questions in your defence exams. Read and discover new words with their variations in spellings. Practice your spellings in writing and you will not commit any mistake the next time you are asked to spell out a certain word.
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