The list below shows 100 of the most often misspelled words:
their
they’re
there
to vs. too
then vs. than
familiar changeable definitely
people
different
because
thought
successful
beautiful
pursue
sincerely embarrass immediately your vs. you’re tried/ tries
swimming analyse were vs. we’re questionnaire two vs. too
let's
argument
necessary
through
quiet vs. quite
calendar
animals
started
recommend
would
said
receive bear vs. bare
from
frightened
cousin
separate
happened
didn't
always
interesting sometimes accentuate
children
perceive
until
our vs. are
asked
off vs. of
through
running
believe
little
repetition accommodate
went
receive
stopped
fulfil
morning
here vs. hear beginning know vs. no
technique
together
now
decided
friend
equipment
occurrence
its vs. it’s
bought
getting
rhythm
ingredient
again
heard
existence
coming
business
achieve
February
humorous
sentence
occasionally
surprise
before
caught
playwright
different
woman vs.
library
jumped
dropped
babies
women
How many of these words can you spell?
Use the ‘Look, Cover, Say, Write’ method to help you practise.
Look, cover, check
Break it into syllables (e.g. re - mem - ber)
Break it into affixes (e.g. dis - cover)
Words within words (e.g. tragedy - rage)
Use analogy (e.g. bright, light, night)
Say it as it looks - stress unstressed vowels (e.g. Wed - nes - day)
Use etymology (e.g. bi + cycle = two + wheels)
Use word families (e.g. muscle - muscular)
Plurals
 Most plurals are made by adding “s” to the end of the word: cat = cats; horse = horses
 They are never made by adding apostrophes! NEVER write cat’s, horse’s or taxi’s
(unless you want to mean ‘belonging to the cat/horse/taxi).
 Nouns that end in a hiss (the noun ends with s,x,z,sh,ch or ss) often need “es” to
make the plural: bonus = bonuses; box = boxes; church = churches; whizz = whizzes.
 If a noun ends in a single “f” we often have to change the ‘f’ to ‘v’ before adding
“es”: loaf = loaves; wolf = wolves; shelf = shelves. There are (of course!) exceptions
to this rule, including: chefs, roofs, and chiefs.
 If a noun ends with ‘o’ then we usually add an “es” to make the plural:
potato=potatoes; volcano = volcanoes; torpedo = torpedoes. Again there are
exceptions including:
piano = pianos; solo = solos.
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FRENCH
GERMAN
Es ist sonnig (it is sunny)
Es ist neblig (it is foggy)
J’ai regardé (I watched)
C’était (it was)
J’ai mangé (I ate)
Effrayant (scary) Es ist stürmisch (it is stormy) Es ist heiß (it is hot)
Es ist wolkig (it is cloudy)
Es regnet (it is raining)
Je suis allé (I went)
Marrant (fun)
Es ist schön (it is nice)
J’ai bu (I drank)
Barbant (boring) Es schneit (it is snowing)
J’ai vu (I saw)
Cher (expensive) Es ist windig (it is windy)
Es donnert und blitzt (it is thundering and lightening)