A list of easily Confused/Mispronounced Words |
Easily Confused Words Accept/except choose/chose Advice/advise cite/site/sight Affect/effect cloths/clothes All ready/already coarse/course All together/altogether complement/compliment Allusion/illusion conscience/conscious Ally/alley council/counsel Aloud/allowed currant/current Altar/alter dairy/diary Analysis/analyze descent/dissent Ascent/assent device/devise Assistance/assistants die/dye Board/bored ensure/insure Breath/breathe envelop/envelope Bridal/bridle formally/formerly Capital/capitol forth/fourth Censor/censure foul/fowl Hear/here prophecy/prophesy Heard/herd quiet/quit/quite Idol/idle right/write Incidence/incidents road/rode Its/it’s sail/sale Know/no shone/shown Later/latter stationary/stationery Lead/led statue/stature Lessen/lesson straight/strait Lightning/lightening than/then Loan/lone their/there/they’re Loose/lose through/threw Maybe/may be to/too/two Moral/morale vain/vein Muscle/mussel waist/waste Naval/navel wait/weight Paid/payed weather/whether Passed/past were/we’re/where Peace/piece which/witch Personal/personnel who’s/whose Presence/presents your/you’re Principal/principle Frequently Mispronounced Words Correct Spelling Mispronounciation accidentally "accidently" athlete "athelete" barbarous "barbarious" disastrous "disasterous" February "Febuary" mathematics "mathmatics" miniature "minature" mischievous "mischievious" monstrous "monsterous" parliamentary "parlimentry" probably "probly" sophomore "sophmore" temperature "temperture" Words with s, ss, c, and sc absence ascend accessible assassinate adolescent assistance associate occasion conscience permissible conscious persistence decision physical descend possession discussion reminisce ecstasy resistance embarrass scarcity expense sincerely fascinate source insistent succeed license succession mischievous suspicious muscle unconscious necessary unnecessary nuisance vicious Words with -able or -ible acceptable incredible admissible irresistible advisable irritable believable likeable changeable movable collapsible noticeable comfortable peaceable compatible permissible credible possible dependable probable edible profitable eligible resistible flammable responsible flexible separable gullible visible impossible Words with -ence or -ance abhorrence dependence abundance difference Acquaintance endurance Appearance existence Appliance guidance Assistance independence Attendance inference Conference insistence Deference intelligence Defiance interference Magnificence prominence Maintenance providence Nuisance reference Occurrence resemblance Patience significance Permanence surveillance Persistence temperance Preference tolerance Prevalence vengeance |