How good of a speller are you? Spelling is definitely a pain for both ESL students and native speakers. English spelling is quite complicate. Some words may have the same sound and very different spelling. Others have letters that have nothing to do with the way they are pronounced. Then there are also silent letters that are required in writing but not in speech. The many foreign words the English language has absorbed contribute to the mayhem. But the language is what it is and it is up to speaker to spell it right or at least to try and find out the correct spelling. Google has made the task much easier.
A survey done in Britain by market research company OnePoll has listed the top 20 misspelled words. Here they are:
1. definitely
2. sacrilegious
3. indict
4. manoeuvre
5. bureaucracy
6. broccoli
7. phlegm
8. prejudice
9. consensus
10.unnecessary
11.supersede
12.questionnaire
13.lieutenant
14.entrepreneur
15.connoisseur
16.inoculate
17.particularly
18.liquify
19.parallel
20.conscience
Take the quiz on the right and see how you do.
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