More Common Misspellings Exercise

Choose the correct spelling.

1. Which one is correct?
wich
which
whitch

2. Which one is correct?
until
untill
untile

3. Which one is correct?
truely
truelly
truly

4. Which is right?
tomorrow
tommorow
tommorrow

5. Which is correct?
supprise
suprise
surprise

6. Which is correct?
sucessful
successful
successfull



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Use your knowledge of spelling rules to help you with these tricky spellings.

  1. which → which not witch. Careful these are homophones. Which witch is which?

  2. until = un + til (check out the Adding all, till, full lesson)

  3. truly = true drop the ‘e’ with ly in this exception word = truly. We usually keep the ‘e’ with -ly. (Check out the lesson on Adding -ly).

  4. tomorrow = to + morrow (morrow is the old word for tomorrow/the following day. See tomorrow lesson.)

  5. surprise → see the two r’s surprise “sur prise”

  6. successful = success + ful. See the two c’s and two s’s success.