September 16, 2013

Spellings often Misspelled

Monday, September 16, 2013 English Grammar Tips 14 comments

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Friends, thanks for the overwhelming response to our Tips for correct spellings. Some of our friends have asked us to include some tips to remember the spellings that are often misspelled / confuse. Most spelling errors are unintentional. The main problem with the spellings is, people remember the sound of the word in their mother tongue and try to write the spelling to that sound using their own English language skills. But as English is a tricky language, this technique leads to some typing errors. Some common typos are :

Omitting letters from a word
Adding extra letters
Transposing two letters in a word
Spacing words improperly

We can avoid these errors with some careful observation and practice. Here is the list of some misspelled / confused words. Just observe the common errors carefully, and learn the correct spellings prudently. We hope this observation helps you improving your spellings. All the Best :)

Correct Spelling : Referred

Common Spelling Errors : Reffered / refferred
To be observed Carefully : Single 'f' and Double 'r'

Correct Spelling : Occurred

Common Spelling Errors : Ocurred / Occured
To be observed Carefully : Double 'c' & Double 'r'

Correct Spelling : Committed

Common Spelling Errors : Commited / Comitted
To be observed Carefully : Double 'm' & Double 'I'

Correct Spelling : Compelled

Common Spelling Errors : Compeled / Commpelled
To be observed Carefully : Single 'm' & Double 'I'

Correct Spelling : Occasion

Common Spelling Errors : Occassion / Ocassion
To be observed Carefully : Double 'c' & Single 's'

Correct Spelling : Accommodation

Common Spelling Errors : Accomodation / Acommodation
To be observed Carefully :Double 'c' & Double 'm'

Correct Spelling : Committee

Common Spelling Errors : Commitee / Comittee
To be observed Carefully : Double 'm', Double 't' & Double 'e'

Correct Spelling : Unparalleled

Common Spelling Errors : Unparallelled / Unparalelled
To be observed Carefully :Double 'I' only once & Single 'l' latter

Correct Spelling : Manoeuvre / Maneuver (US)

Common Spelling Errors : Manuvre / Manoeuver
To be observed Carefully : 'o' comes before 'e' & 'u' comes before 'v'

Correct Spelling : Consummation

Common Spelling Errors : Conssumation / Consumation
To be observed Carefully : Single 's' & Double 'm'

Correct Spelling : Languor

Common Spelling Errors : Langour / Languour
To be observed Carefully :'u' comes before 'o' & only single 'u' not double (after 'o').

Correct Spelling : Bungalow

Common Spelling Errors : Bangalow / Bunglow
To be observed Carefully :'u' comes after 'b' & 'a' comes after 'g'

Correct Spelling : Conscience

Common Spelling Errors : Consience / Consience / Consceince
To be observed Carefully :'i' comes before 'e'. So, it is 'ie' and not 'ei'

Correct Spelling : Definitely

Common Spelling Errors : Defenetly / Defnetly
To be observed Carefully :'i' comes after 'f' not 'e' & 'u' comes after 'a' at the end.

Correct Spelling : Bureau

Common Spelling Errors : Bereau / Burow / Beauro
To be observed Carefully :'e' comes before 'a' & 'u' comes after 'a' at the end.

Correct Spelling : Reclamation

Common Spelling Errors : Reclammation / Reclaimmation
To be observed Carefully :Single 'c' & Single 'm' & no 'i' before 'm'

Correct Spelling : Indispensable

Common Spelling Errors : Indispensible / Indespincible
To be observed Carefully :'i' comes after 'd' & 'e' comes after 'p' & 's' comes before 'able'

That's all for now friends. In our next post we shall discuss about Homophones (the words that are pronounced alike but that have different spellings and meanings). Happy Reading :)