English(शा. अ.)

The Top 10 Spelling Mistakes

The list below shows you the ten words that advanced students most often spell wrongly in the Cambridge Learner Corpus. The bold letters in these words show you which parts of the words learners most often get wrong.

To help you spell these words correctly, pay special attention to these letters in the correct spellings:

Correct spelling

1.      accommodation

2.      which

3.      government

4.      beginning

5.      definitely

6.      successful

7.      environment

8.      advertisement

9.      believe

10. colleague

Spelling words in English can be difficult for learners because sometimes a word is very similar to a word in their own language but is not spelled the same. This is why French learners of English, for example, spell success with only one ‘s’, or colleague without an ‘a’.

Another thing that makes spelling difficult is that some words in English do not sound exactly as they are spelled. In the word definitely, for example, the second ‘i’ sounds more like an ‘a’. It is important that students of English learn these differences.