Levi’s Lists
Commonly Misspelt Words
There are so many words in the English language that are seemingly easy to learn and hard to remember how to spell. Keeping your reader interested is your main aim – its what keeps them reading – so this list of words that we continually find misspelt has been created to give you a head start in getting your spelling in shape (and keeping your reader interested).
Please keep in mind as you read this list, it is written for those who write in Australian English!
| A | ||
| accessory | accidentally | accommodate |
| address | already | although |
| amateur | apparent | argument |
| awkward | ||
| B | ||
| basically | beautiful | belief |
| believe | business | |
| C | ||
| caffeine | calendar | ceiling |
| cemetery | collectible | committed |
| conscience | concious | correspondence |
| D | ||
| definite | desperate | disappear |
| discipline | ||
| E | ||
| ecstasy | embarrass | exceed |
| exercise | existence | extraordinary |
| F | ||
| February | focused | foreign |
| fourth | friend | fulfill |
| G | ||
| government | grammar | grateful |
| gauge | graffiti | |
| H | ||
| harass | humorous | |
| I | ||
| immediate | independent | irrelevant |
| J | ||
| judgement | ||
| K | ||
| knowledge | ||
| L | ||
| leisure | library | limousine |
| M | ||
| miniature | mortgage | |
| N | ||
| naive | necessary | negligible |
| noticeable | ||
| O | ||
| occasion | occurrence | opportunity |
| P | ||
| parliament | possesses | preferable |
| prejudice | privilege | |
| Q | ||
| questionnaire | ||
| R | ||
| receive | recommend | reference |
| restaurant | restaurateur | rhythm |
| ridiculous | ||
| S | ||
| secretary | seize | sensible |
| separate | similar | success |
| surprise | ||
| T | ||
| tattoo | tomorrow | tragedy |
| twelfth | ||
| U | ||
| until | ||
| V | ||
| vacuum | ||
| W | ||
| weather | Wednesday | weird |
| welcome | withhold | |
| Y | ||
| yacht | yield | |
| Z | ||
| zoology |
