Vol. 04 · Spelling213 words
How to spell it.
The words English speakers routinely second-guess, with the correct form, the rule it follows, and a memory hook that actually sticks. Sorted A→Z.
A 12
B 5
C 19
- calendar Not "calender"
- camouflage Not "camoflage"
- caribbean Not "carribean"
- category Not "catagory"
- cemetery Not "cemetary"
- changeable Not "changable"
- chief Not "cheif"
- climactic Not "climatctic"
- colleague Not "coleague", "collegue"
- coming Not "comming"
- committee Not "commitee"
- completely Not "completly"
- conscience Not "concience"
- conscious Not "concious"
- consensus Not "concensus"
- control Not "controll"
- controlled Not "controled"
- convenient Not "convienient"
- curiosity Not "curiousity"
D 6
E 14
- eighth Not "eigth"
- embarrass Not "embarass"
- environment Not "enviroment"
- equipped Not "equiped"
- especially Not "especialy"
- espresso Not "expresso"
- exaggerate Not "exagerate"
- exceed Not "excede"
- excellent Not "excelent"
- exercise Not "excercise"
- exhilarate Not "exilerate"
- existence Not "existance"
- explanation Not "explaination"
- extremely Not "extreemly"
F 7
G 3
H 7
I 12
- ignorance Not "ignorence"
- imitate Not "immitate"
- immediate Not "imediate"
- immediately Not "imediately"
- incidentally Not "incidently"
- independent Not "independant"
- indispensable Not "indispensible"
- inoculate Not "innoculate"
- intelligent Not "inteligent"
- interesting Not "intresting"
- interrupt Not "interupt"
- irresistible Not "iresistible"
J 1
K 1
L 3
M 14
- maintenance Not "maintainance"
- maneuver Not "manuver"
- marriage Not "marraige"
- mathematics Not "mathmatics"
- memento Not "momento"
- millennia Not "millenia"
- millennium Not "millenium", "milennium"
- miniature Not "minature"
- minuscule Not "miniscule"
- miscellaneous Not "miscellanous"
- mischievous Not "mischievious"
- misspell Not "mispell"
- misspelling Not "mispelling"
- mortgage Not "mortage"
N 4
O 6
P 24
- parallel Not "parallell", "paralel"
- parliament Not "parliment"
- pastime Not "passtime"
- perceive Not "percieve"
- perseverance Not "perserverance", "perseverence"
- persistent Not "persistant"
- personnel Not "personell"
- piece Not "peice"
- plagiarism Not "plagerism"
- pleasant Not "pleasent"
- possession Not "possesion", "posession"
- potato Not "potatoe"
- precede Not "preceed"
- preferable Not "prefferable"
- preferred Not "prefered"
- privilege Not "priviledge", "privelege"
- probably Not "probaly"
- professional Not "proffesional"
- professor Not "proffesor"
- promise Not "promiss"
- pronunciation Not "pronounciation"
- propaganda Not "propoganda"
- psychic Not "psyhic"
- publicly Not "publically"
Q 2
R 14
- raspberry Not "rasberry"
- really Not "realy"
- receipt Not "reciept"
- receive Not "recieve"
- recommend Not "reccomend"
- referred Not "refered"
- relevant Not "relevent"
- religious Not "religous"
- remember Not "rember"
- repetition Not "repitition"
- resistance Not "resistence"
- restaurant Not "restaraunt", "restraunt"
- rhythm Not "rythm", "rythym"
- ridiculous Not "rediculous"
S 26
- sacrifice Not "sacrafice"
- sacrilegious Not "sacreligious"
- safety Not "saftey"
- satellite Not "satelite"
- schedule Not "schedual"
- secretary Not "secratary"
- seize Not "sieze"
- sense Not "sence"
- separate Not "seperate"
- sergeant Not "sergent"
- siege Not "seige"
- similar Not "similiar"
- sincerely Not "sincerly"
- soldier Not "soldger"
- sophomore Not "sophmore"
- speech Not "speach"
- strength Not "strenght"
- subtle Not "suttle"
- success Not "succsess"
- successful Not "succesful", "sucessful"
- sufficient Not "suficient"
- supersede Not "supercede"
- supposedly Not "supposably"
- surely Not "surley"
- surprise Not "suprise"
- swimming Not "swimmin"
T 13
- temperament Not "temperment"
- temporary Not "temprary"
- tendency Not "tendancy"
- their Not "thier"
- thorough Not "thourough"
- threshold Not "threshhold"
- through Not "thru"
- tomato Not "tomatoe"
- tomorrow Not "tommorow", "tommorrow"
- tongue Not "tounge"
- truly Not "truely"
- twelfth Not "twelth"
- tyranny Not "tyrany"
U 4
V 6
W 10
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