IELTS HELP – Commonly misspelt words by IELTS candidates
| Commonly misspelt words by IELTS candidates: | ||
| Correct spelling | Common misspelling | |
| accommodation | accomodation | |
| address | adress | |
| achieve | acheive | |
| across | accross | |
| in addition | in addiction | |
| aggressive | agressive | |
| apparently | apparantly | |
| appearance | appearence | |
| argument | arguement | |
| basically | basicly | |
| because | becuase | |
| before | befor | |
| beginning | begining | |
| believe | beleive, belive | |
| business | bussiness | |
| calendar | calender | |
| children | childern | |
| colleague | collegue | |
| comfortable | confortable | |
| committee | commitee | |
| conclusion | conculsion | |
| conscious | concious | |
| continuous | continous | |
| decreasing | decresing | |
| definitely | definately | |
| deny | denay | |
| different | diffrent | |
| disappear | dissapear | |
| disappoint | dissapoint | |
| environment | enviroment, envirnoment | |
| example | exemple | |
| existence | existance | |
| false | flase | |
| February | Febuary | |
| finally | finaly | |
| foreign | foriegn, forgein | |
| forward | foward | |
| friend | freind | |
| further | futher | |
| furthermore | forthemore | |
| government | goverment | |
| happened | happend | |
| himself | hisself | |
| immediately | immediately, immidiatly | |
| important | impotent | |
| increasing | incresing | |
| independent | independant | |
| interrupt | interupt | |
| knowledge | knowlege | |
| language | lenguage, langauge | |
| necessary | neccessary | |
| noticeable | noticable | |
| nowadays | Nowsaday, now a days, nowdays | |
| occasion | ocassion, occassion | |
| opinion | oppinion, opoinon | |
| personally | personaly | |
| piece | peice | |
| politician | politican | |
| possession | posession | |
| publicly | publically | |
| really | realy | |
| receive | recieve | |
| referred, referring | refered, refering | |
| religious | religous | |
| remember | rember, remeber | |
| reply | replay | |
| restaurant | restuarant | |
| sense | sence | |
| separate | seperate | |
| sincerely | sincerly | |
| something | somethink | |
| speech | speach | |
| stressful | stressfull | |
| successful | successful, successfull | |
| surprise | suprise | |
| tendency | tendancy | |
| themselves | themselfs | |
| therefore | therefor | |
| timetable | time table | |
| tomorrow | tommorow, tommorrow | |
| tongue | tounge | |
| truly | truely | |
| unfortunately | unfortunatly | |
| until | untill | |
| Wednesday | Wendsday | |
| with | whit | |
| whereas | wheras | |
| wherever | where ever | |
| which | wich | |
| writing | writting | |
| youngsters | youngers | |