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Essay Notes and Practice PSLE

Mock Essay Test 

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Observation test (5 mins relaxation practice)

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Complete List of Commonly Misspelled Words

A–B
  • absence – absense, absentse, abcense, absance[3][10]
  • acceptable – acceptible[4]
  • accidentally/accidently – accidentaly[4]
  • accommodate – accomodate, acommodate[3][4]
  • achieve – acheive[3]
  • acknowledge – acknowlege, aknowledge[3]
  • acquaintance – acquaintence, aquaintance[3]
  • acquire – aquire, adquire[4]
  • acquit – aquit[4]
  • acreage – acrage, acerage[3]
  • address – adress[3]
  • adultery – adultary[3]
  • advisable – adviseable, advizable[3]
  • affect – effect[3]
  • aggression – agression[1]
  • aggressive – agressive[1]
  • allegiance – allegaince, allegience, alegiance[3]
  • almost – allmost[3]
  • a lot – alot (must be two words), allot[4]
  • amateur – amatuer, amature[4]
  • annually – anually, annualy[3]
  • apparent – apparant, aparent,apparrent, aparrent[4]
  • arctic – artic[3]
  • argument – arguement[1][4]
  • atheist – athiest, athist[3][4]
  • awful – awfull, aweful[3]
  • because – becuase[3]
  • beautiful – beatuful[3]
  • becoming – becomeing[3]
  • beginning – begining[3]
  • believe – beleive[4]
  • bellwether – bellweather[3][4]
  • buoy/buoyant – bouy/bouyant[3]
  • business – buisness[1]
C–D[edit]
  • calendar – calender[3][4]
  • camouflage – camoflage, camoflague[3]
  • capitol – capital[3] (both words exist, but are distinct)
  • Caribbean – Carribean[3]
  • category – catagory[3][4]
  • caught – cauhgt, caugt[3]
  • cemetery – cemetary,[1] cematery[3]
  • changeable – changable[3][4]
  • chief – cheif[3]
  • colleague – collaegue, collegue[3]
  • column – colum[4]
  • coming – comming[3]
  • committed – commited, comitted[3][4]
  • comparison – comparsion
  • concede – conceed[3]
  • congratulate – congradulate[3]
  • conscientious – consciencious[3][4]
  • conscious – concious, consious[4]
  • consensus – concensus[1][3][4]
  • controversy – contraversy[1]
  • coolly – cooly[3]
  • daiquiri – dacquiri, daquiri[4]
  • deceive – decieve[1][3]
  • definite – definate,[1] definit[4]
  • definitely – definitly,[4] definately, defiantly
  • desperate – desparate[1][3]
  • difference – diffrence[3]
  • dilemma – dilema[3]
  • disappoint – dissapoint[1]
  • disastrous – disasterous[3]
  • drunkenness – drunkeness[4]
  • dumbbell – dumbell[4]
E–H[edit]
  • embarrass – embarass[1][4]
  • equipment – equiptment (wrong in numerous webpages)[4]
  • exceed – excede[4]
  • exhilarate – exilerate[4]
  • existence – existance[4]
  • experience – experiance[4]
  • extreme – extreem[1]
  • fascinating – facinating[1]
  • fiery – firey[4]
  • fluorescent – flourescent[1]
  • foreign – foriegn[4]
  • friend – freind[1]
  • fulfil – fullfil (American: fulfill)[1]
  • gauge – guage[1][4]
  • grateful – gratefull, greatful[1][4]
  • guarantee – garantee, garentee, garanty[1][4][10]
  • guidance – guidence[11]
  • harass – harrass[1][4]
  • height – heighth, heigth[4]
  • hierarchy – heirarchy[4]
  • hors d'oeuvres – hors derves, ordeurves[3]
  • humorous – humerous[4]
  • hygiene – hygene, hygine, hiygeine, higeine, hygeine[3]
  • hypocrisy/hypocrite – hipocrit[1][3]
I–K[edit]
  • ignorance – ignorence[4]
  • imitate – immitate[3]
  • immediately – imediately[1][4]
  • indict – indite[4]
  • independent – independant[4][7]
  • indispensable – indispensible[4]
  • inoculate – innoculate[4]
  • intelligence – inteligence, intelligance[4]
  • jewelry (UK: jewellery) – jewelery[4]
  • judgment – judgement (issue in the U.S.)[4]
  • kernel – kernal, distinct from homophone "colonel"[4]
L–O[edit]
  • leisure – liesure[4]
  • liaison – liason[1][4]
  • library – libary, liberry[4]
  • license – lisence[4] (US always license, UK noun licence)[1]
  • lightning – lightening[4]
  • lose – loose[13]
  • maintenance – maintainance, maintnance[1]
  • marshmallow - marshmellow[14]
  • medieval – medeval, medevil, mideval[4]
  • memento – momento[4]
  • millennium – millenium, milennium[1][4]
  • miniature – miniture[1][4]
  • minuscule – miniscule[1][4]
  • mischievous – mischievious, mischevous, mischevious (The spelling "mischievious" and the corresponding pronunciation are still considered non-standard despite being current and existing since at least the 16th century.)[4][15]
  • misspell – mispell, misspel[1][4]
  • necessary – neccessary, necessery[1]
  • niece – neice[1]
  • neighbour – nieghbor[4]
  • noticeable – noticable[4]
  • occasion – occassion[1]
  • occasionally – occasionaly, occassionally[4]
  • occurrence – occurrance, occurence[4]
  • occurred – occured[1]
  • omission – ommision, omision[1]
  • original – orignal[1]
  • outrageous – outragous[1]
P–Q[edit]
  • parliament – parliment[1]
  • pastime – passtime, pasttime[4]
  • perceive – percieve[1]
  • perseverance – perseverence[4]
  • personnel – personell, personel[4]
  • plagiarize – plagerize[3]
  • playwright – playright, playwrite[4]
  • possession – posession, possesion[1][4]
  • potatoes – potatos[1]
  • precede – preceed[4]
  • presence – presance[1]
  • principle – principal[4]
  • privilege – privelege, priviledge[1][4]
  • professor – professer[3]
  • promise – promiss[11]
  • pronunciation – pronounciation[4]
  • proof – prufe[12]
  • prophecy (as noun) – prophesy (valid as verb)[3]
  • publicly – publically[4]
  • quarantine – quarentine[3]
  • queue – que (from Bar-B-Que)[3]
  • questionnaire – questionaire, questionnair[1]
R–S[edit]
  • readable – readible[8]
  • really – realy[1]
  • receive – recieve[1][4]
  • receipt – reciept[4]
  • recommend – recomend, reccommend[1][4]
  • referred – refered[4]
  • reference – referance, refrence[4]
  • relevant – relevent, revelant[3][4]
  • religious – religous, religius[12]
  • repetition – repitition[12]
  • restaurant – restarant, restaraunt[4]
  • rhyme – rime[4]
  • rhythm – rythm, rythem[1][4]
  • secretary – secratary, secretery[1]
  • seize – sieze[1]
  • separate – seperate[1][4]
  • sergeant – sargent[4]
  • similar – similer[1]
  • skilful – skilfull (American: skillful)[1]
  • speech – speach, speeche (archaic)[12]
  • successful – succesful, successfull, sucessful[1]
  • supersede – supercede[4]
  • surprise – suprise, surprize[1]
T–Z[edit]
  • than – then[16]
  • their – there, they're[4]
  • tomatoes – tomatos[1]
  • tomorrow – tommorow, tommorrow[1]
  • twelfth – twelth[4]
  • tyranny – tyrany[4]
  • underrate – underate[4]
  • until – untill[4]
  • upholstery – upholstry[4]
  • usable/useable – usible[9]
  • vacuum – vaccuum, vaccum, vacume[4]
  • vehicle – vehical[1]
  • vicious – visious[1]
  • weather – wether, whether[4]
  • weird – wierd[1][4]
  • welfare – wellfare, welfair[3]
  • whether – wether[3]
  • wilful – wilfull (American: willful)[1]
  • withhold – withold[1]
  • writing – writting, writeing[12]
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