Most Commonly Misspelled Words

Are you looking for the most commonly misspelled words? Well, I was looking for them too. After a few days of hunting, I found them. Hence, to keep my readers from searching like me, I have them all here together. Read on...
Alright, so everywhere you look on the web, you will find a really long list of wrongly spelled words. I did too. But, I figured the list could be far more streamlined. Now, 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. Following is a quiz with MCQs regarding spellings of words. Mind you, these are the 20 most misspelled words 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 misspelling words. Here are the answers, and in the meantime you could also check out some interesting words.
  1. a
  2. a
  3. d
  4. d
  5. c
  1. b
  2. d
  3. c
  4. d
  5. d
  1. a
  2. c
  3. b
  4. d
  5. a
  1. b
  2. a
  3. d
  4. a
  5. d
There are more words that you could go wrong with; here they are:
  • argument
  • arithmetic
  • athlete
  • awful
  • balance
  • basically
  • develop
  • difference
  • disappear
  • disappoint
  • breathe
  • brilliant
  • calendar
  • careful
  • fundamental
  • generally
  • government
  • grammar
  • guarantee
  • guidance
  • happiness
  • heroes
  • humorous
  • identity
  • knowledge
  • laboratory
  • length
  • lesson
  • mysterious
  • naturally
  • necessary
  • neighbor
  • neither
  • paid
  • parallel
  • particularly
  • peculiar
  • perceive
  • presence
  • privilege
  • probably
  • professional
  • promise
  • proof
  • psychology
  • quantity
  • quarter
  • quiet
  • recommend
  • reference
  • religious
  • repetition
  • restaurant
  • using
  • usually
  • village
  • weird
  • welcome
  • whether
  • writing
Hope this article helped you get rid of some of your confusion regarding spellings. Some people get especially confused between the British and American version of spellings, so, to clear your doubt, take a look at British Spellings vs American Spellings. I enjoyed writing it, hope you enjoyed reading it, too. This is where I sign off! A bientôt!
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Last Updated: 9/26/2011
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