Frequently Misspelled Words 16

This quiz puts 10 spelling traps in front of you, each cued by a synonym or a description.

You might get mixes air with gasoline, musical instrument, or melt and have to spell the answer.

A common miss is liquefy, which most people write as "liquify." Despite that i sound in the middle, the word takes an e instead, putting it in the small club of words that keep an e before the fy. Pairing it with putrefy and stupefy, which behave the same way, helps the e stick.

Recommended level: intermediate.