Take it!! Some words like misspelled words seek attention, surprise and confusion from the user because of how they are rigidly spelt. These variety of misspelled words could also lead to discussion among readers since some persons would definitely notice these errors.
Misspelling words cannot be totally erased but can be mitigated. However, the vital thing is to master some of the complex and confusing words.
Eduvocabulary just made it easy by putting these common misspelled words into categories. Thus, if you endeavor to read this till the end, you will be privileged to know the types of words that you can easily misspell and why you often misspell them.
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Here are few of the categorized words.
- Words misspelled due to pronunciation
Not every words can be spelt as pronounced. Reason why you may misspell words such as:
Pronounciation: This is incorrect. Users spell as pro+noun+citation. (according to how it is pronounced).
Pronunciation : correct
Separate: incorrect (as pronounced)
Seperate: correct.
Littuce: incorrect
Lettuce : correct
Indefinite: incorrect
Indefinite: correct
Owe: incorrect
Awe: correct
Defination: incorrect
Definition correct
Enterpreneur: incorrect
Entrepreneur: Correct
- Misspelling words with double letters within.
Words with double letters are mostly misspelled by users since they aren't sure if they consist of an alphabet or two. If you ask me, I will tell you words under this category are most confusing words ever. You keep biting hands to know if the word consists of a letter or two.
Words such as:
Incorrect Correct
Neccessary Necessary
Exagerate Exaggerate
embarassment Embarrassment
Diferent Different
Adress Address
Disapointed Disappointed
mispel Misspell
Interupt Interrupt
Comitted Committed
- Words with single letter are misspelled
Incorrect Correct
Occassional Occasional
Exccellent Excellent
Auxilliary Auxiliary
Parrallel Parallel
Expell Expel
Accross Across
Desperrate Desperate
Garrage Garage
- Homophones are commonly misspelled
Homophones are kind of words that sounds alike but have separate meaning. In Homophones, words are pronounced the same way but are spelt differently. This is the reason why they are commonly misspelt. Here is the illustration.
- Other. Order
- There. Their
I slept in there house
- This. these
Who owns these pencil
- Would wood
- Bitten. Beaten That fair lady was beaten by our English teacher
- Complement Compliment
- Soar. Sore
We shall continue to sore higher
- Leave Live
I leave at Sapele
Note that the underlined words in the given sentences are words that exist and spelt correctly. The reason why they are incorrect according to the above sentences is because they do not merge with the context of the sentences. Thus, they are misspelled.
#IF YOU DO NOT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS CATEGORY OF WORDS, YOU WILL MISSPELL. HERE, AFFIRMATION OF YOUR MISSPELT WORDS CAN BE DISCOVERED THROUGH THE CONTENT OF YOUR SENTENCES
- Past tense, participle and continuous words are misspelled
This category of words are misspelled because users spell words base on the base form. Here are the words under these.
Incorrect. Correct
Expeled. Expelled
Cuting cutting
Living. Lying
Slaped. Slapped
Bite. Bit
Farer. Farther
Writing without spelling error is not totally feasible. It is however a good rule of thumb as a student or writer to always proofread. Note that it is not a bad idea if you proofread yourself but it is the best to give it to a professional or use tool like Grammarly to check your work. You can browse Grammarly for free or sign up for a paid subscription here and try out their basic free version.
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