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Commonly Misspelled Words

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Commonly Misspelled Words

 

Frequent short spelling tests are an effective means of fixing spelling errors.  The following is a list of commonly misspelled words.  We will study and test over the words in groups of ten.  Study these words by having someone dictate and pronounce correctly the words for you.  Write each word several times, too, as the spelling tests will be written, not oral (like in a spelling bee).  We will test once a week.

 


  1. abundant
  2. academically
  3. accelerator
  4. accessible
  5. accidentally
  6. accommodation
  7. accompaniment
  8. accomplishment
  9. accuracy
  10. acknowledge

 

  1. acquaintance
  2. adequately
  3. admission
  4. admittance
  5. adolescent
  6. advantageous
  7. aerial
  8. allegiance
  9. alliance
  10. anonymous

 

 

  1. apologetically
  2. apparent
  3. arousing
  4. arrangement
  5. atheistic
  6. attendance
  7. awfully
  8. ballet
  9. bankruptcy
  10. barbarian

 

 

 

 

 

  1. beggar
  2. behavior
  3. beneficial
  4. bibliography
  5. blasphemy
  6. boulevard
  7. buffet
  8. calculation
  9. camouflage
  10. capitalism

 

  1. catalog
  2. catastrophe
  3. cellar
  4. cemetery
  5. changeable
  6. Christianity
  7. circumstantial
  8. colossal
  9. communist
  10. comparative

 

  1. competition
  2. complexion
  3. conceivable
  4. connoisseur
  5. conscientious
  6. consciousness
  7. consistency
  8. controversy
  9. cruelty
  10. curriculum

 

  1. deceitful
  2. descendant
  3. desirable
  4. despair
  5. devise
  6. diligence
  7. disastrous
  8. discrimination
  9. diseased
  10. dissatisfied

 

  1. ecstasy
  2. efficiency
  3. embarrassment
  4. emperor
  5. emphasize
  6. enormous
  7. entertainment
  8. enthusiastically
  9. entrance
  10. environment

 

  1. exhaustion
  2. exhibition
  3. exhilaration
  4. expensive
  5. familiarize
  6. fascination
  7. feminine
  8. forfeit
  9. fulfill
  10. fundamentally

 

  1. galaxy
  2. gauge
  3. grammatically
  4. guidance
  5. harassment
  6. hereditary
  7. hindrance
  8. horizontal
  9. hospital
  10. hygiene
  11. ideally
  12. incidentally
  13. independent
  14. inevitable
  15. influential
  16. initiative
  17. innocent
  18. institution
  19. intellectual
  20. irrelevant

 

  1. irresistible
  2. kerosene
  3. larynx
  4. leisurely
  5. license
  6. liquor
  7. livelihood
  8. luxurious
  9. magnificence
  10. maintenance

 

  1. malicious
  2. manageable
  3. maneuver
  4. martyrdom
  5. mediocre
  6. melancholy
  7. metaphor
  8. mischievous
  9. misspelled
  10. mortgage

 

  1. mosquito
  2. mysterious
  3. naïve
  4. necessity
  5. neurotic
  6. noticeable
  7. novelist
  8. nuisance
  9. obedience
  10. occasionally

 

 

 

  1. occurrence
  2. opportunity
  3. outrageous
  4. pageant
  5. pamphlet
  6. peasant
  7. pedestal
  8. perceive
  9. permanent
  10. permissible

 

  1. persistent
  2. perspiration
  3. phenomenon
  4. physician
  5. playwright
  6. pneumonia
  7. politician
  8. precede
  9. presence
  10. prestige

 

  1. privilege
  2. procedure
  3. propaganda
  4. prophesy
  5. pursue
  6. quietly
  7. rebellion
  8. receive
  9. recommendation
  10. reference

 

  1. rehearsal
  2. relieve
  3. reminiscent
  4. responsibility
  5. seize
  6. separation
  7. sergeant
  8. siege
  9. significance
  10. sponsor

 

 

 

  1. statistics
  2. strategic
  3. stubbornness
  4. succeed
  5. succession
  6. superintendent
  7. suppress
  8. symbolic
  9. tariff
  10. temperament

 

  1. temperature
  2. tendency
  3. theoretical
  4. tolerance
  5. tomorrow
  6. traffic
  7. tragedy
  8. transcend
  9. transparent
  10. tried

 

  1. twelfth
  2. undoubtedly
  3. universal
  4. unmistakable
  5. unnatural
  6. unnecessary
  7. vacuum
  8. vehicle
  9. villain
  10. yield

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Write them 5x each.  Try a practice quiz.  Participate in board races.  Study your CMW!