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Spelling Practice


The exercise at this link provides practice on 64 commonly misspelled words.


The exercises below ask you to type in the words you see below, after reading a phonetic spelling of each word.

Spelling A

abhorrence, accommodate, acknowledgment, acquaintance, adviser, acquit, alleged, already, aficionado, asinine, argument, auxiliary

Spelling B

bachelor, ballistic, burqa, bankruptcy, bellwether, benefited, berserk, bona fide, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, baccalaureate, barbiturate

Spelling C

caffeine, colossal, corroborate, Caribbean, counterfeit, compatible, conceive, congratulations, conscience, conscious, coup d’etat, connoisseur

Spelling D

deity, demagogue, dependent, desirable, disservice, definitely, do’s and don’ts, dumbfounded, drought, disc jockey, desiccate, dilemma, Dr Pepper

Spelling E

eerie, eighth, embarrass, emphysema, especially, exaggerate, exhilarating, exorbitant, explanation, endeavor, employee, espresso

Spelling F

February, financier, fiery, fluorescent, foreign, fortunately, forfeit, fraudulent, fuchsia, fulfill, facetious, feasible

Spelling G

gaudy, genealogy, garrulous, gauge, glamorous, goodbye, grammar, grievance, guarantee, guerrilla, gaiety, garish

Spelling H

harebrained, heroes, height, heir, hemorrhage, hierarchy, hitchhiker, hygiene, homicide, hysterical, handkerchief, harass

Spelling I

illegitimate, irascible, iridescent, inconvenience, independent, innuendo, intercede, Internet, irrelevant, irresistible, ifs and buts, illegible

Spelling J-K

jeopardy, jewelry  , judgment, judicious, khaki, kidnapped, kimono, kindergarten, knowledgeable, keenness

Spelling L

laboratory, loneliness, legitimate, leisure, liaison, license, likable, lightning, likelihood, luscious, lieutenant, legerdemain

Spelling M

malarkey, marijuana, meander, mayonnaise, medicine, memento, mimicked, miscellaneous, mischievous, misspell, manageable, maneuver, matriculate

Spelling N-O

naive, nuisance, neighbor, niece, noticeable, occasion, occurrence, OK’d, ordinarily, omitted, newsstand, nickel, Oyez

Spelling P

paraphernalia, paralyzed, peaceable, perseverance, presumptuous, prerogative, precede, privilege, Philippines, pursue, parallel, particularly

Spelling Q-R

quandary, query, questionnaire, queue, religious, reminiscence, receipt, rhyme, rhythm, rock ‘n’ roll, reconnoiter, ridiculous, repressible

Spelling S

sacrilegious, soothe, scissors, seizure, silhouette, sizable, skiing, subpoena, surveillance, symmetry, schedule, short-lived

Spelling T

teenage, temperamental, thoroughly, transferal, tournament, twelfth, truly, tumultuous, tying, tyrannous, theater, toward

Spelling U-V

uncontrollable, undoubtedly, usable, vacuum, vacillate, vengeance, vicious, villain, veterinary, vilify, volume, virtually

Spelling W-Z

Wednesday, weird, wherever, willful, wiry, witticism, wondrous, X-ray, zany, zucchini, wholly, wiener

 

 

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Special thanks to Dr. LaRae Donnellan of Florida A&M University for providing the material for this exercise.