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Spelling words in English is a challenging task because English many words are not spelled phonetically. That is, they are not spelled according to how they sound. The words below are some of the most commonly misspelled words in the English language. You and your teach will discuss the best ways to learn the spelling of these words. List of commonly misspelled words provided by John's ESL Community |
| absence | desirability | itinerary | relieve | |
| abundance | development | judgment | reminiscence | |
| accidentally | dilemma | knowledge | renaissance | |
| acclaim | dilettante | laboratory | renowned | |
| accommodate | dissatisfied | leisure | repetition | |
| accumulate | dissension | liable | rescind | |
| achievement | drunkenness | liaison | restaurateur | |
| acquaintance | ecstasy | license | rhythm | |
| acquiesce | effect | lien | ridiculous | |
| affect | eighth | lieutenant | sacrilegious | |
| aggravate | eligible | liquefy | satellite | |
| allotted | embarrassed | loose | schedule | |
| analogous | entrepreneur | lose | scissors | |
| analysis | enumerate | losing | seize | |
| anoint | erroneous | maintenance | separate | |
| antiquated | escrow | memento | siege | |
| appall | exhilarate | minuscule | similar | |
| apparatus | existence | mischievous | solely | |
| appreciable | exonerate | misspell | souvenir | |
| argument | eyeing | narrative | stationary | |
| athletic | facsimile | necessary | stationery | |
| assistant | fallacy | neutral | strength | |
| attendance | familiar | noticeable | subsistence | |
| auxiliary | February | occasion | subtlety | |
| beginning | fictitious | occurred | subtly | |
| believe | fiery | occurrence | succeed | |
| bulletin | financier | omitted | suing | |
| ceiling | fluorescent | optimistic | supersede | |
| cemetery | foresee | original | surreptitious | |
| census | foreword | oscillate | surveillance | |
| changeable | forfeit | pamphlets | susceptible | |
| coincidence | fulfill | parallel | tariff | |
| commitment | further | pastime | temperamental | |
| committee | gauge | penitentiary | theater | |
| comparative | government | perhaps | threshold | |
| concede | graffiti | perseverance | tragedy | |
| conceive | grammar | persistent | transferred | |
| condominium | grievance | phenomenal | tyranny | |
| connoisseur | gruesome | phenomenon | truly | |
| conscience | guarantee | prairie | unanimous | |
| conscientious | harass | preceding | unmanageable | |
| consensus | height | prerogative | unwieldy | |
| continuously | heroine | principal | unnecessary | |
| controversial | hors d'oeuvre | principle | usage | |
| coolly | hypocrisy | privilege | vacillate | |
| council | ignorant | proceed | vacuum | |
| curriculum | inadvertent | questionnaire | vilify | |
| deceive | indispensable | quiet | warrant | |
| deductible | innocuous | quite | Wednesday | |
| definitely | inoculate | rarefy | weird | |
| dependent | insistent | receive | whether | |
| descendant | iridescent | recommend | wholly | |
| desert | irrelevant | referred | wield | |
| dessert | irresistible | relevant | yield |