150 WORDS MOST OFTEN MISSPELLED

You are not alone if you misspell one of a large number of confusing words. The only way to learn these words
is by going over them again and again. Write them. Say them. Look at them. Use them in sentences.
The most commonly misspelled words are divided into groups to make them easier for you to study. Try
learning one group a week.
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IV

a lot
all right
believe
benefited
benefitted
describe
forty
guarantee
license
lonely
loose
occurred
personal
rhythm
shining
than

achievement
among
belief
conceivable
conscious
existence
occasion
possible
professor
pursue
sense
similar
technique
villain
writing

acclaim
acquire
coming
definitely
discipline
dropped
embarrass
existent
familiar
fascinate
marriage
medicine
necessary
preferred
prepare
succeed

accommodate
analysis
become
before
disgusted
enough
occurrence
prisoners
significance
source
strength
swimming
thought
useless
various

arguing
beneficial
description
interest
mere
occurring
particular
receive
recognize
separate
sincerely
studying
therefore
thorough
tragedy

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VII

VIII

IX

apparent
article
beginning
exaggerate
experience
height
losing
practical
precede
privilege
repetition
transferred
vacuum
weird
whose

afraid
already
beautiful
entrance
excitable
hungry
opinion
personnel
playwright
sacrifice
sociology
stubborn
suspense
unnecessary
view

argument
bargain
cigarette
escape
except
exercise
fourth
genius
hopeless
hoping
huge
ignorant
imagine
jealous
likely

acceptance
across
advertisement
curriculum
during
fulfill
grammar
possession
prejudice
recommend
relieve
seize
speech
suppose

analyze
arise
certainly
environment
excellence
interest
oppose
quiet
referring
remember
surprise
swimmer
useful
yield

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100 MORE OFTEN MISSPELLED WORDS

Frequent short spelling tests help to establish correct spelling in your mind. Work with no more than twenty
words at a time. Have the words dictated to you. Study the words you miss by dividing them into syllables,
saying them, and learning their meanings so that you can use them in sentences. Then, write them again from
dictation.
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IV

accessible
accidentally
accomplishment
acknowledge
admission
admittance
adolescent
advantageous
allege
alliance
allotting
annihilation
anonymous
apologetically
apparatus
atheistic
behavior
blasphemy
boulevard
bureaucrat

camouflage
catastrophe
cemetery
changeable
colossal
complexion
connoisseur
conscientious
crises (pl)
descendant
devastation
dilemma
diligence
ecstasy
efficiency
embarrassment
endeavor
exuberant
fascination
fascism

feminine
forfeit
gaiety
gauge
harassment
hereditary
hygiene
hypocrisy
ingenious
initiative
inoculate
irrelevant
leisure
liquor
luxurious
magnificence
maintenance
malicious
maneuver
martyrdom

mediocre
melancholy
metaphor
mischievous
nave
necessity
neurotic
ninety
nuisance
occasionally
occurrence
opportunity
outrageous
peasant
perceive
phenomenon
picnicking
pneumonia
prestige
prevalent

propaganda
prophesy
referred
reminiscent
sergeant
siege
significance
specimen
strategic
succession
supersede
susceptible
tendency
theoretical
transcend
tyranny
unscrupulous
vaccine
vengeance
yacht

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