Here are 2 lists of words people often misspell
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Words most commonly misspelled by children in Year 8 and under
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again |
dropped |
looked |
their |
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all right |
every |
many |
then |
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always |
February |
money |
there |
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an |
first |
morning |
they |
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and |
for |
mother |
they're |
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animals |
friend |
name |
things |
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another |
friends |
named |
thought |
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around |
frightened |
off |
threw |
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asked |
from |
once |
through |
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babies |
getting |
our |
to |
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beautiful |
going |
people |
together |
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because |
happening |
pretty |
too |
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before |
hear |
received |
tried |
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believe |
heard |
running |
two |
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bought |
here |
said |
until |
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came |
him |
school |
very |
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caught |
interesting |
some |
wanted |
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children |
its |
something |
went |
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clothes |
it's |
sometimes |
were |
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coming |
jumped |
started |
when |
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course |
knew |
stopped |
where |
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cousin |
know |
surprise |
with |
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decided |
let's |
swimming |
woman |
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didn't |
like |
than |
would |
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different |
little |
that's |
you're |
Easily confused words because they are said the same
(many are only a problem later in life as they aren't in a younger child's vocabulary)
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aid/aide |
coarse/course |
knead/need |
role/roll |
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air/heir |
colonel/kernel |
knight/night |
road/rode/rowed |
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allowed/aloud |
complement/compliment |
knot/not |
root/route |
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altar/alter |
core/corps |
know/no |
rose/rows |
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arc/ark |
council/counsel |
lead/led |
sail/sale |
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ascent/assent |
creak/creek |
leased/least |
scene/seen |
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assistance/assistants |
crews/cruise |
lessen/lesson |
sea/see |
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ate/eight |
currant/current |
lie/lye |
seam/seem |
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bail/bale |
cymbal/symbol |
load/lode |
scent/sent |
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ball/bawl |
days/daze |
loan/lone |
serf/surf |
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band/banned |
dear/deer |
made/maid |
shone/shown |
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bare/bear |
die/dye |
mail/male |
side/sighed |
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base/bass |
doe/dough |
maize/maze |
sight/site |
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be/bee |
dual/duel |
mall/maul |
slay/sleigh |
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beach/beech |
earn/urn |
manner/manor |
soar/sore |
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beat/beet |
faint/feint |
meat/meet |
sole/soul |
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berry/bury |
fair/fare |
might/mite |
some/sum |
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berth/birth |
feat/feet |
miner/minor |
son/sun |
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billed/build |
find/fined |
missed/mist |
stair/stare |
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bite/byte |
fir/fur |
muscle/mussel |
stake/steak |
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blew/blue |
flair/flare |
naval/navel |
stationary/stationery |
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boar/bore |
flea/flee |
none/nun |
steal/steel |
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board/bored |
flour/flower |
one/won |
straight/strait |
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boarder/border |
forth/fourth |
oar/or/ore |
suite/sweet |
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bolder/boulder |
foul/fowl |
pail/pale |
tail/tale |
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born/borne |
grate/great |
pain/pane |
tea/tee |
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bough/bow |
groan/grown |
passed/past |
tear/tier |
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boy/buoy |
guessed/guest |
pause/paws |
theirs/there's |
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brake/break |
hail/hale |
peace/piece |
threw/through |
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bread/bred |
hair/hare |
peak/peek |
throne/thrown |
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bridal/bridle |
hall/haul |
peal/peel |
tide/tied |
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buy/by/bye |
hangar/hanger |
pedal/peddle |
to/too/two |
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canvas/canvass |
hear/here |
peer/pier |
toe/tow |
| |
capital/capitol |
heard/herd |
plain/plane |
vain/vane/vein |
| |
carat/carrot |
hi/high |
pole/poll |
wade/weighed |
| |
cast/caste |
higher/hire |
pore/pour |
ware/wear/where |
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caught/cot |
him/hymn |
pray/prey |
wail/whale |
| |
cede/seed |
hoard/horde |
presence/presents |
waist/waste |
| |
ceiling/seating |
hoarse/horse |
principal/principle |
wait/weight |
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cell/sell |
hole/whole |
profit/prophet |
waive/wave |
| |
cellar/seller |
hour/our |
rain/reign/rein |
way/weigh |
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cereal/serial |
idle/idol |
raise/rays |
weak/week |
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cheap/cheep |
in/inn |
rap/wrap |
weather/whether |
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chews/choose |
intense/intents |
read/red |
weave/we've |
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Chile/chilly |
flew/flu/flue |
read/reed |
we'd/weed |
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choral/coral |
for/four |
real/reel |
which/witch |
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chute/shoot |
its/it's |
right/write/rite |
who's/whose |
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close/clothes |
jam/jamb |
ring/wring |
wood/would |
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your/you're |
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