Prepared this list of commonly misspelt words for my fifth graders to master before their national examination next October:
• abundantly
• accelerate
• acceptable
• accomplish / accomplished / accomplishment
• accommodation
• accidentally
• accumulate / Accumulates
• achieve
• acquaintance
• acquire
• acquit
• a lot
• affectionate
• amateur
• announcement
• apparently
• appropriately
• argument
• atheist
• atmosphere
• attended
• barbecue
• beckoning
• beverages
• believe
• beginning
• business
• calendar
• camouflage
• category
• cemetery
• challenge / challenged / challenges
• changeable
• chosen
• collectible
• committee
• committed
• compliments
• competition
• congratulations
• conscience
• conscientious
• conscious
• consistent
• contagious
• crushed
• curiosity
• deadline
• delicious
• definitely
• description
• destruction
• devastation
• development
• different
• dialogue
• disappear
• disappointment
• discipline
• drunkenness
• dumbfounded
• ecstatic
• effective
• embarrass / embarrassment
• encourage
• enormously
• enthusiasm
• environment
• equipment
• explanation
• exhibition
• exhilarate
• exceed
• experience
• extinction
• extroverted
• existence
• fascinating
• favourite
• fiery
• fluid
• foreign
• forward
• fourth
• gauge
• generally
• government
• grammar
• grateful
• guarantee
• harass
• height
• hierarchy
• humorous
• ignorance
• immediately
• independent
• indispensable
• individuals
• initially
• innovation / Innovative
• interpret
• interesting
• intelligence
• invited
• judgement
• knowledge
• lethargic
• leisure
• library
• lightning
• magnificent
• maintenance
• manoeuvre
• memento
• manner
• medicine
• mechanical
• millennium
• minature
• mischievous
• nostalgic
• noticeable
• occasion
• occurrence
• official
• overwhelming
• parliament
• parallel
• particular
• pastime
• peculiar
• perseverance / persevered
• pigeon
• pleasant
• popular / Popularity
• possible / Probably
• possession
• preferable
• principal / principle
• privilege
• procrastination
• pronunciation
• questionnaire
• quote
• receive
• recognition
• recommendation
• recuperate
• referred
• reference
• religious
• rejuvenate
• relevant
• reminisce
• respectively
• restaurant
• reunion
• requires
• rhythm
• ridiculous
• sandal
• schedule
• scissors
• scratching
• scrumptious
• sensible
• separate
• sergeant
• several
• society
• souvenirs
• specially
• stationery / stationary
• striking
• successful / succeeded
• sustained
• sudden
• survive
• technique
• tomorrow
• topic
• truly
• twelfth
• tyranny
• unique
• unconsciously
• until
• uphill
• useful
• vacation
• vacuum
• variety
• various
• venturing
• vicious
• wasted
• weather
• weird
• worshipped