Difficult words that ESL learners struggle to spell

Correct spelling

Common misspelling

Spelling advice

Accommodation

Accomodation

Acommodation

Remember there are two C’s and two M’s

Achieve

Acheive

Remember the I before E rule

Across

Accross

There’s only one C

Appearance

Appearence

Remember the word ends with ‘ANCE’ not ‘ENCE’

Argument

Arguement

Remember to drop the E

Beginning

Begining

There are two N’s before ING

Believe

Beleive

Similar with the word achieve, remember the I before E rule

Business

Buisness

Remember the I goes in between the S and the N

Calendar

Calender

Don’t forget that this word ends in ‘DAR’ instead of ‘DER’

Colleague

Collegue

Remember that it is ‘EA’ in the middle

Coming

Comming

There is only one M

Completely

Completly

This word ends with ‘ELY’

Definitely

Definately

Remember that it is ‘ITE’ not ‘ATE’

Disappear

Dissapear

There’s only one S and two P’s

Disappoint

Dissapoint

Similarly with disappear, there’s only one S and two P’s

Embarrass

Embarass

Remember there’s two R’s and two S’s

Environment

Enviroment

Don’t forget the silent N, in between the O and the M

Familiar

Familar

This word ends in ‘LIAR’

Finally

Finaly

Remember that this word has two L’s

Foreign

Foriegn

Forget the I before E rule here, because it is spelt with E before I

Forward

Foward

Remember that this word begins with ‘FOR’

Friend

Freind

Remember the I before E rule

Further

Futher

This word begins with ‘FUR’

Government

Goverment

Similar to Environment, don’t forget the silent N, in between the R and the M

Guard

Gaurd

Remember this word starts with ‘GUA’

Happened

Happend

This word ends with ‘ENED’

Immediately

Immediatly

Similar to completely, remember that this word ends in ‘ELY’

Independent

Independant

Don’t forget that this word ends in ‘DENT’ not ‘DANT’

Interrupt

Interupt

Remember that this word has two R’s

Irresistible

Irresistable

This word ends with ‘IBLE’ instead of ‘ABLE’

Knowledge

Knowlege

Don’t forget the D, in between E and G

Necessary

Neccessary

Remember that there is only one C and two S’s

Occasion

Occassion

Remember that there are two C’s and only one S

Piece

Peice

Remember the I before E rule

Politician

Politican

This word ends in ‘CIAN’

Preferred

Prefered

This word has two R’s

Really

Realy

This word has two L’s

Receive

Recieve

Remember the I before E rule

Remember

Rember

Remeber

Don’t forget that this word has ‘MEM’ in the middle

Sense

Sence

This word ends in ‘SE’, not ‘CE’

Separate

Seperate

This word has ‘PAR’ in the middle of it, not ‘PER’

Successful

Succesful

Remember that this word has two C’s and two S’s

Surprise

Suprise

Don’t forget that there is an R, in between the U and the P

Therefore

Therefor

Remember to add an E on the end

Tomorrow

Tommorrow

Tommorow

Remember that this word only has one M and two R’s

Tongue

Tounge

Break up the word to help you spell it correctly, remember ‘TON’ at the beginning and ‘GUE’ at the end

Unfortunately

Unfortunatly

Similar with completely, remember this word ends in ‘ELY’

Until

Untill

Remember there is only one L at the end of this word

Wherever

Whereever

Don’t forget to drop the E, there is only one E in the middle

Which

Wich

Don’t forget that this word starts with ‘WH’