Alright, so everywhere you look on the web you will find a really long list of wrongly spelled words. But I felt the list could be far more streamlined. I may be a writer, but it's thanks to spell check that one may not find typos in the content. Instead of giving you a list, and making it so easy, let's take a quiz with MCQs. Mind you, these are the 20 most common ones in the English language. Try it out. Let's get started then?
A Quiz on Words Spelled Incorrectly in English
| Group 1 |
Group 2 |
| a) accommodate
b) acommodate
c) accommodat
d) accammodate |
a) deductible
b) deductable
c) deductuble
d) deductabel |
| Group 3 |
Group 4 |
| a) embarras
b) embaras
c) embarass
d) embarrass |
a) foreward
b) forword
c) forworde
d) foreword |
| Group 5 |
Group 6 |
| a) indispensabel
b) indispensible
c) indispensable
d) indespensible |
a) judgement
b) judgment
c) judgemant
d) judgmant |
| Group 7 |
Group 8 |
| a) liason
b) liasson
c) liasone
d) liaison |
a) occassion
b) ocassion
c) occasion
d) ocasion |
| Group 9 |
Group 10 |
| a) perserverance
b) persaverence
c) perserverence
d) perseverance |
a) procede
b) proceede
c) proced
d) proceed |
| Group 11 |
Group 12 |
| a) business
b) bizineess
c) busyness
d) besniss |
a) envirement
b) enviornment
c) environment
d) enviarmint |
| Group 13 |
Group 14 |
| a) facinating
b) fascinating
c) fasenating
d) fassinating |
a) beleive
b) bilieve
c) bileive
d) believe |
| Group 15 |
Group 16 |
| a) dilemma
b) dillemma
c) dillema
d) dilema |
a) excersize
b) exercise
c) excercize
d) exersize |
| Group 17 |
Group 18 |
| a) consensus
b) concensus
c) consencus
d) consenssus |
a) inadvertant
b) inadvartant
c) inadvartent
d) inadvertent |
| Group 19 |
Group 20 |
| a) prerogative
b) perogative
c) perogitive
d) preragitive |
a) rime
b) ryme
c) rhime
d) rhyme |
If you get the correct answers for more than 15 of these MCQs, then, you need not worry about being prone to this. Here are the answers.
- 1. a
- 2. a
- 3. d
- 4. d
- 5. c
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- 6. b
- 7. d
- 8. c
- 9. d
- 10. d
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- 11. a
- 12. c
- 13. b
- 14. d
- 15. a
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- 16. b
- 17. a
- 18. d
- 19. a
- 20. d
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There are more words that you could go wrong with; here they are:
- argument
- arithmetic
- athlete
- awful
- balance
- basically
- develop
- difference
- disappear
- disappoint
- breathe
- brilliant
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- calendar
- careful
- fundamental
- generally
- government
- grammar
- guarantee
- guidance
- happiness
- heroes
- humorous
- identity
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- knowledge
- laboratory
- length
- lesson
- mysterious
- naturally
- necessary
- neighbor
- neither
- paid
- parallel
- particularly
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- peculiar
- perceive
- presence
- privilege
- probably
- professional
- promise
- proof
- psychology
- quantity
- quarter
- quiet
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- recommend
- reference
- religious
- repetition
- restaurant
- using
- usually
- village
- weird
- welcome
- whether
- writing
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Hope this article helped you get rid of some confusion regarding a few spellings. This is where I sign off! A bientôt!
