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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]