Misspelt words in English

Misspelt words in English
 

I've found this page with the 100 most commonly misspelt words in English. Would you add some words of common usage? For instance, I think that "aggressive" could be added.

Thanks. :)

Think that these words are particularly difficult to spell to natives.

Good thread - One group of words that are difficult for ESL students
as well as many native speakers includes the "ie"-"ei" words.

The rule is "i before e except after c...either, neither, leisure, seize are
four exceptions, if you please."

We only have misspelled words in America, none of those misspelt ones. :D

Here are a couple of links that list many exceptions to the 'i before e except after c' rule, and pronunciations differ for even some of those between American and British English. link1 link2

Tengo unas pocas


Their
Loose / lose
Accidentally
Unnecessary
Weird

My spelling is atrocious, and that is one word I can never spell without looking it up.

I also have a huge problem with diarrhoea, but fortunately only an orthographical one. :eek:

Perikles :lol: :lol: :lol:

Thanks everybody and Rusty for the links. By the way, is "misspelled" in AmE and "misspelt" in BrE? Would "misspelled" wrong in BrE? :thinking:

And I agree with you, Chileno, I don't have difficulty with some of them, but I have with the others. :)

Thanks. :)

In BrE, spelt and misspelt are used, but spelled and misspelled also used and not considered incorrect (according to Fowler).

Thanks. :)

:D

You have problems with some of them, mainly because you haven't accustomed to them, but with a bit more of practice almost none of them will offer a problem.

You are very optimistic. :D

I think I don't have problem with those words which are similar to Spanish ones (such as argument, miniature, amateur, etc.), and I don't understand Perikles' difficulties with atrocious, which is similar to Spanish "atroz" and that common English suffix "ious", maybe it's because of his pronunciation, which is much better than mine (;) ). My problems are with those words which have two identical consonants (such as aggressive, accommodate, etc., or even that manoeuvre, for which I must think of the French I studied and forgot). Well, maybe practice will help. :thinking: :)

Believe it or not, I have never made the connection. Now I have a mnemonic - thanks. :thumbsup:

My main problem is actually I am a little dyslexic. I have huge problems with words like friend or freind and it's no good giving the rule because I never know if it's an exception or not. (I have trouble telling left from right, but I don't know if that is connected.)

I find that learning foreign languages does help. I could never spell the name Michael until I met a German with that name, pronounced Mích - a - el.

Sí sí :):) la llave es practicarlas

Las palabras que llevan letras diferentes con los mismos sonidos son difíciles

unneccessary ... Hmm did I spell it right, yo mismo no estoy seguro !:D

Nope. :lol::lol:. It is necessary for you to learn this.

(One curve in the letter c, two curves in the s)

Unnecessary (I know this one! :D ).

I have the same problem as you, Perikles, with dyslexia (a difficult word, as bicycle :( ) and the right and the left. I've given wrong directions because of that problem and I'm not sure where the persons who asked me arrived. :thinking: :D Even when I was doing the exam for my driving license (another "beautiful" word"), the examiner told me to park on the right and I did on the left, or on the contrary :thinking: (he made an observation but I passed the exam :)).

Of course. Practice will make a whole world of difference.

Good thinking.

But, with Spanish you are in an even better position, since Spanish is pronounced as you see it. (WYSIWYG) :applause:

I'd say the most misspelled word in English is "definitely"

You are deffinnitly right. :)

I think I launched a missle.

:P

nah I can spell that fine.

there are ones harder than that

I agree, Jessica. How about

aequeosalinocalcalinoce raceoaluminosocupreovitriolic (52 letters)

which is quite difficult. This is one of a list here :D