List of Commonly Misspelled Words

There are a number of common mistakes that students make when writing English words. A number of these can be seen in the examples below.

• A student may not use a double letter where they are supposed to, or add an extra letter. This is particularly true when putting a regular verb into its past tense or past participle form.
• Some students often miss the “n” in the -ing suffix.
• Silent letters are often omitted since they are not pronounced.
• Students often write a single vowel in the place of a vowel cluster.
• “i” and “e” are often switched in order.
• “c” and “s” may be confused in some cases.
• Confusion often occurs between the following suffixes “ance” and “ence”, “ant” and “ent”, “able” and “ible”.
• Students may not know whether to keep or lose the “e” when adding “able” to a verb that ends in “e”.