Spelling Therapy
The chart to the left attempts to diagnose common symptoms of frequently misspelled words and lay them on top of the correct versions
Introduction
The goal of this site is to aide those of us who memorize words by visualizing each letter on a page with our mind's eye.
Studies have proven that people tend to store the first and last letters of a word in their brain. However, in between these letters, the brain seems to use an efficiency algorithm, calling up a list of grammatical rules and matching them with the proper sounds.
What I am trying to do with Spelling Therapy is get people who memorize words as images to associate different colors with parts of hard-to-spell words. Take the example below. The word definitely contains an i that is often misspelled as an e and an e that is often ommitted.
As time
progresses, you forget how the word definitely was spelled. All your mind's
eye sees is the first letter, a blotch of grey, a blotch of blue, a darker blotch,
and the last letter. So you begin spelling the word definitely but when you
get to defin, you aren't sure whether to add an e or an i. The picture in your
mind states that there was some blue in the word and some black later on. Realizing
that this sixth character of the word definitely is probably a trouble letter,
you decide indeed was the blue character. Blue means pick the highest letter
in the alphabet with the two possible choices presented. So you proceed with
adding an i. Now you remember that later in the word there was a missing character.
Was it an e? Yes.
Frequently Misspelled Words
Words highlighted in gray allow you to peek at a common a misspelling (with correction)
acceptable
accessible
accidentally
acclaim
accommodate
accomplish
achieve
acquire
acquit
across
actually
address
alignment
amateur
anniversary
annual
anonymous
apparent
apocalypse
assignment
argument
arguement
atheist
attendance
bankruptcy
basically
beginning
believe
bellwether
bellweather
benefit
boundary
business
bureaucracy
calendar
camouflage
canister
category
cartilage
cartridge
casualty
catholic
Celsius
cemetery
challenge
champagne
changeable
chief
civilian
collectible
column
commission
committed
committee
compliment
conscience
conscientious
conscious
consensus
convenient
criticize
definitely
dependence
decision
descision
desirable
desireable
despair
desperate
dilemma
disastrous
disasterous
discipline
disease
drunkenness
dumbbell
efficient
eighth
eligible
embarrass
endeavor
enormous
enourmous
ensemble
envelope
equipment
equiptment
European
exaggerate
exceed
excede
existence
experience
extraordinary
extremely
February
feasible
fiery
finally
foreign
forfeit
fortunately
gauge
governor
grateful
greatful
grief
guarantee
guerrilla
guidance
harass
height
hierarchy
hippopotamus
humorous
hygiene
hypocrisy
ideologies
ignorance
immediate
imitate
inadvertent
incremental
independent
indispensable
inoculate
intelligent
irresistible
jewelry
jewelery
judicial
judgment
judgement
knowledge
label
legitimate
leisure
liaison
library
license
lightning
lightening
lonely
Los Angeles
maintenance
maintainance
maneuver
manufacturing
marriage
medieval
memento
millennium
miniature
minuscule
mischievous
mischievious
misspell
mortgage
neighbor
noticeable
necessary
obedience
occasionally
occurrence
opportunity
oppression
origin
pastime
peninsula
perseverance
perserverance
pursue
personnel
playwright
playwrite
possession
precede
prefer
preference
prescription
propaganda
privilege
priviledge
pronunciation
pronounciation
publicly
publically
pursue
quarantine
questionnaire
recede
receive
receipt
recipient
recommend
referred
reference
relevant
resemblance
restaurant
rhyme
rhythm
rhythem
salary
satellite
schedule
schedual
seize
secretary
separate
sergeant
signature
sincerely
specifically
souvenir
sovereign
Sweden
subpoena
succeed
surprise
supersede
suspicious
syrup
tendency
thief
thorough
through
till
tomorrow
translator
tyranny
unnecessary
using
useing
usually
vacuum
villain
volunteer
wield
yield
Please note: colors have
been enriched in some cases to highlight narrow
letters.
Sources
YourDictionary.com Frequently Misspelled Words
Paul Brians Commonly Misspelled Words
Useful Links
Keywords You Need on Your Resumé
Spellweb - Compare spellings using search engines
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