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Prepared this list of commonly misspelt words for my fifth graders to master before their national examination next October:
• abundantly • accelerate • acceptable • accomplish / accomplished / accomplishment • accommodation • accidentally • accumulate / Accumulates • achieve • acquaintance • acquire • acquit • a lot • affectionate • amateur • announcement • apparently • appropriately • argument • atheist • atmosphere • attended • barbecue • beckoning • beverages • believe • beginning • business • calendar • camouflage • category • cemetery • challenge / challenged / challenges • changeable • chosen • collectible • committee • committed • compliments • competition • congratulations • conscience • conscientious • conscious • consistent • contagious • crushed • curiosity • deadline • delicious • definitely • description • destruction • devastation • development • different • dialogue • disappear • disappointment • discipline • drunkenness • dumbfounded • ecstatic • effective • embarrass / embarrassment • encourage • enormously • enthusiasm • environment • equipment • explanation • exhibition • exhilarate • exceed • experience • extinction • extroverted • existence • fascinating • favourite • fiery • fluid • foreign • forward • fourth • gauge • generally • government • grammar • grateful • guarantee • harass • height • hierarchy • humorous • ignorance • immediately • independent • indispensable • individuals • initially • innovation / Innovative • interpret • interesting • intelligence • invited • judgement • knowledge • lethargic • leisure • library • lightning • magnificent • maintenance • manoeuvre • memento • manner • medicine • mechanical • millennium • minature • mischievous • nostalgic • noticeable • occasion • occurrence • official • overwhelming • parliament • parallel • particular • pastime • peculiar • perseverance / persevered • pigeon • pleasant • popular / Popularity • possible / Probably • possession • preferable • principal / principle • privilege • procrastination • pronunciation • questionnaire • quote • receive • recognition • recommendation • recuperate • referred • reference • religious • rejuvenate • relevant • reminisce • respectively • restaurant • reunion • requires • rhythm • ridiculous • sandal • schedule • scissors • scratching • scrumptious • sensible • separate • sergeant • several • society • souvenirs • specially • stationery / stationary • striking • successful / succeeded • sustained • sudden • survive • technique • tomorrow • topic • truly • twelfth • tyranny • unique • unconsciously • until • uphill • useful • vacation • vacuum • variety • various • venturing • vicious • wasted • weather • weird • worshipped
24 sats \ 2 replies \ @Aardvark 8h
I'm pretty lost without spellcheck on a regular basis. I've never been great at spelling in general.
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Actually with the prevalence of spell checkers, it is not longer that important to spell accurately.
Too bad children still need to pass exams in my country 🤪
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Exams are overrated. You should be teaching them all how to party!
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occasionally - I always forget if it's one s or two s
imbibition - in my head I'm going "imbibibibition"
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You know the memory aid to remember necessary - one collar and two sleeves. I will tell my students that occasionally is the opposite - two collars and one sleeve.
I confess that I have never come across imbibition before today!
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24 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 7h
succesfully
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Mine is diarrhoea. I only learnt how to spell it without using Google fairly recently
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hodl
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Sorry, hold
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I get confuse in 'ie' or 'ei' because these are pronounced same in Hindi. I remember I asked my students about their spelling hazards, they told me the same. BtW Indians are very good at English spellings.
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The rule I before e, except after c sure doesn’t make things easily because there are so many exceptions!
Yes, the National Scripps Spelling Bee is more often than not won by Indians!
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I always forget if giraffe has two R's or two g's 😆
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Why do you need to spell giraffe so often in the first place?
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Restaurant was tough at one time.
Then I split it up - Rest Aura Ant
(except since Restauraant, with "aa", is OBVIOUSLY wrong, I skip one.
It doesn't necessarily make sense to anyone but me, but it works!
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The irony is that dyslexic is hard to spell for me.
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I stumble on guarantee most of the time.
A bunch of those words are easier if you stop writing like a Canadian.
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