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Spelling Bee

The document lists frequently misspelled words and commonly confused homonyms and words. It provides 73 items in two sections - the first section lists 34 frequently misspelled words, and the second section lists 39 pairs of commonly confused words that are often used incorrectly. The purpose is to provide a reference of spelling and word choices that are commonly mixed up or misused in writing.

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Spelling Bee

The document lists frequently misspelled words and commonly confused homonyms and words. It provides 73 items in two sections - the first section lists 34 frequently misspelled words, and the second section lists 39 pairs of commonly confused words that are often used incorrectly. The purpose is to provide a reference of spelling and word choices that are commonly mixed up or misused in writing.

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Frequently misspelled Homonyms often misused:

words:
1. accept - except
1. across 2. aisle - isle
2. address 3. bare - bear
3. again 4. born - borne
4. agreeable 5. capital - capitol
5. allot 6. cash - cache
6. already 7. ceiling - sealing
7. answer 8. cellar - seller
8. apparent 9. censor - censer - senser -
9. appearance sensor
10. athlete 10. cereal - serial
11. balloon 11. coarse - course
12. believable 12. colonel - kernel
13. bureau 13. complement - complimen
14. business t
15. college 14. council - counsel
16. commitment 15. elicit - illicit
17. concede 16. forth - fourth
18. conscientious 17. herd - heard
19. cousin 18. hole - whole
20. debt 19. horse - hoarse
21. definite 20. lean - lien
22. different 21. led - lead (n.)
23. does (v.) 22. naval - navel
24. eligible 23. ought - aught
25. embarrass 24. principal - principle
26. exceed 25. recede - reseed
27. exhilarate 26. right - rite
28. familiar 27. sight - site - cite
29. February 28. stationary - stationery
30. foreign 29. straight - strait
31. forty 30. their - there
32. grammar 31. ware - wear - where
33. half 32. weather - whether
34. independence 33. wright - write - rote - wro
35. interesting te
36. its 34. yore - your
37. knowledge Commonly confused words:
38. laboratory
39. laugh 1. advice - advise
40. league 2. allusion - illusion
41. maintenance 3. amoral - immoral
42. minute 4. affect (v.) - effect (n.)
43. misspell 5. averse - adverse
44. noticeable 6. biannual - biennial
45. occurrence 7. breath - breathe
46. often 8. choose - chose
47. parallel 9. climactic - climatic
48. pastime 10. collaborate - corroborate
49. possess 11. conscience - conscious
50. privilege 12. convince - persuade
51. probably 13. desert - dessert
52. ready 14. device - devise
53. receipt 15. emigrate - immigrate
54. recommend 16. flaunt - flout
55. said 17. founder - flounder
56. satellite 18. gambit - gamut
57. schedule 19. imply - infer
58. secretary 20. irritate - aggravate
59. separate 21. later - latter
60. sheriff 22. liable - libel
61. sincerely 23. loose - lose
62. succeed 24. marital - martial
63. sure 25. moot - mute
64. trouble 26. nauseated - nauseous
65. truly 27. perspective - prospective
66. usually 28. proceed - precede
67. vacuum 29. proscribe - prescribe
68. vegetable 30. quiet - quite
69. villain 31. recall - recount
70. visible 32. tenant - tenet
71. Wednesday 33. than - then
72. weird
73. whose

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