Frequently Misspelled Words 10

This quiz works through 10 words people regularly misspell, each one hinted at by a near-synonym.

You read something like essential, event, or evident and supply the correctly spelled match.

The big one to mind is occurrence, which doubles up on both letters: two cs and two rs. Dropping either pair is the usual mistake, and it happens to be one of the most misspelled words in everyday writing. Saying each part slowly, oc-cur-rence, reminds you to keep both pairs in place.

Recommended level: intermediate.