Frequently Misspelled Words 17

Ten more misspelled words are on deck, each one prompted by a clue.

A hint such as officer, obligatory, or one who shares a room leads to the word you must spell.

The wildest entry is colonel, which is pronounced exactly like "kernel" yet written c-o-l-o-n-e-l. The sound and the spelling barely seem related, a quirk left behind by the word's twisting path through French and Italian. There is no clean rule for it, so this is simply a word to learn by sight.

Recommended level: intermediate.