Mock Essay Test 

Observation test (5 mins relaxation practice)

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]