Commonly Misspelled Words

Commonly Misspelled Words

The words in red are the ones we have already covered with our commonly confused spelling words.

1. a lot
2. abbreviate
3. accidentally -- Could you tally up how many things happened accidentally in our classroom?
4. achievement -- The i before e rule works here.
5. analyze
6. anonymous
7. answer  -- I say it to myself, "ans-wer."
8. apologize  -- O -O, I'm so sorry! 
9. appearance -- Does it look like a pear?  
10. appreciate
11. appropriate
12. argument
13. awkward
14. beautiful
15. because
16. beginning
17. believe
18. bicycle
19. brief
20. bulletin
21. business
22. calendar
23. campaign
24. candidate
25. caught
26. certain
27. changeable
28. characteristic
29. clothes
30. column
31. committee
32. courageous
33. courteous
34. criticize
35. curiosity
36. decision
37. definitely
38. dependent
39. description
40. desirable
41. despair
42. desperate
43. development
44. dictionary
45. different
46. disappear
47. disappoint
48. discipline
49. dissatisfied
50. eighth
51. eligible
52. eliminate
53. embarrass
54. enthusiastic
55. especially
56. essay
57. exaggerate
58. exceed
59. existence
60. experience
61. familiar
62. fascinating
63. favorite
64. February
65. foreign
66. fourth
67. fragile
68. generally
69. government
70. grammar
71. guarantee
72. guard
73. height
74. humorous
75. immediately
76. independent
77. irritable
78. judgment
79. knowledge
80. laboratory
81. library
82. license
83. lightning
84. literature
85. loneliness
86. mathematics
87. minimum
88. mischievous
89. necessary
90. nickel
91. ninety
92. noticeable
93. nuclear
94. nuisance
95. obstacle
96. occasionally
97. once
98. opinion
99. opportunity
100. outrageous
101. parallel
102. particularly
103. people
104. permanent
105. persuade
106. pleasant
107. pneumonia
108. possess
109. possibility
110. prejudice
111. principal
112. privilege
113. probably
114. psychology
115. pursue
116. realize
117. receipt
118. receive
119. recognize
120. recommend
121. reference
122. rehearse
123. repetition
124. restaurant
125. rhythm
126. ridiculous
127. sandwich
128. schedule
129. scissors
130. separate
131. sergeant
132. similar
133. sincerely
134. souvenir
135. specifically
136. strategy
137. success
138. surprise
139. syllable
140. sympathy
141. symptom
142. temperature
143. their
144. thorough
145. throughout
146. tomorrow
147. traffic
148. tragedy
149. transferred
150. truly
151. Tuesday
152. twelfth
153. unnecessary
154. usable
155. vacuum
156. vicinity
157. village
158. weird