Ninety Most Common Misspelled Words

 

When students learn to recognize and spell common words automatically, their attention is freed up for learning less common words and, more importantly, for processing meaning. Becoming better spellers of high-frequency words makes kids better readers and vice versa. Here is a list of the 90 most misspelled words.

 

about

again

almost

also

always

anyone

are

beautiful

because

before

buy

by

can't

could

didn't

doesn't

don't

enough

especially

everybody

everyone

everything

except

excited

favorite

first

friends

getting

have

hole

I'm

into

it's

its

knew

know

laugh

let's

myself

new

no

off

one

our

people

probably

really

right

said

school

something

sometimes

terrible

that's

their

then

there

they

they're

threw

through

to

too

until

usually

very

want

was

wear

we're

went

were

what

when

where

whether

who

whole

with

won

won't

wouldn't

write

your

you're

  

Source: Instructor, by Patricia Cunningham

 


 
   

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