Even A Genius Will Struggle To Get 100% On This Simple Spelling Test

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Spelling is one of the most basic things we learn in grade school and it only gets more difficult as we get older and learn new words. But sometimes, we don’t always pay attention and make a few mistakes when we actually try to write something. This quiz contains some commonly misspelled words in American English. You would think that this would be a piece of cake, but you might be surprised out how easily you can second guess yourself. Can you be fooled with this tricky quiz? Take it to prove us wrong!

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Retry Correct Incorrect There are two m’s in accommodate, which means: provide lodging or sufficient space for.

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Accommodate
Accomodate

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3%

Retry Correct Incorrect There are two g’s in aggressive: ready or likely to attack or confront; characterized by or resulting from aggression.

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Aggressive
Agressive

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Retry Correct Incorrect Double m’s, t’s, and e’s for committee: a group of people appointed for a specific function, typically consisting of members of a larger group.

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Commitee
Committee

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8%

Retry Correct Incorrect Don’t forget the ‘s’ in conscious: aware of and responding to one’s surroundings; awake.

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Conscious
Concious

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Retry Correct Incorrect Double r’s and s’s for embarrass: cause (someone) to feel awkward, self-conscious, or ashamed.

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Embarrass
Embarass

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13%

Retry Correct Incorrect Ecstasy is the correct spelling: an overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement.

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Ecstasy
Ecstacy

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15%

Retry Correct Incorrect Hope this spelling wasn’t too foreign for you: strange and unfamiliar.

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Foreign
Foriegn

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18%

Retry Correct Incorrect ‘I’ before ‘e’ is how you achieve the correct spelling: to bring to a successful end, carry through.

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Acheive
Achieve

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20%

Retry Correct Incorrect Did you forget the first ‘h’ in Fahrenheit? Measured according to a temperature scale.

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Farenheit
Fahrenheit

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23%

Retry Correct Incorrect Only one ‘r’ but two s’s in harassment: disturbing, pestering, or troubling repeatedly.

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Harassment
Harrassment

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25%

Retry Correct Incorrect Double c’s for occasion: a particular time, especially as marked by certain circumstances or occurrences.

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Occasion
Ocassion

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28%

Retry Correct Incorrect The correct spelling is resistance: the act or power of resisting.

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Resistance
Resistence

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Retry Correct Incorrect Curiously enough, there is no second ‘u’ in curiosity: a strong desire to know or learn something.

Curiosity
Curiousity

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33%

Retry Correct Incorrect The correct spelling is separate: to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space.

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Separate
Seperate

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35%

Retry Correct Incorrect There only needs to be three e’s in wherever: in any case or condition.

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Wherever
Whereever

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38%

Retry Correct Incorrect Truly doesn’t need the extra ‘e’: in accordance with fact or truth.

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Truly
Truely

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Retry Correct Incorrect Don’t get fired up about the correct spelling of fiery: intensely ardent, impetuous, or passionate.

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Firey
Fiery

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43%

Retry Correct Incorrect Ignorance is not bliss when it comes to spelling: the state or fact of being ignorant, lack of knowledge.

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Ignorance
Ignorence

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45%

Retry Correct Incorrect Knowing how to spell is an indispensable quality: absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite.

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Indispensable
Indispensible

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48%

Retry Correct Incorrect Hope you didn’t add an extra ‘e’ to jewelry: articles of gold, silver, precious stones, etc. for personal adornment.

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Jewelrey
Jewelry

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50%

Retry Correct Incorrect Trust our judgment on your results of this quiz: the ability to judge, make a decision, or form an opinion objectively.

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Judgment
Judgement

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53%

Retry Correct Incorrect Double l’s and n’s for millennium: a thousandth anniversary.

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Milennium
Millennium

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55%

Retry Correct Incorrect The correct word is relevant: bearing upon or connected with the matter in hand.

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Revelant
Relevant

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58%

Retry Correct Incorrect May we recommend a dictionary? To present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc

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Reccommend
Recommend

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60%

Retry Correct Incorrect They say ‘i’ before ‘e’, but not for this word, which is pretty weird: involving or suggesting the supernatural.

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Weird
Wierd

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63%

Retry Correct Incorrect Don’t forget the ‘c’ in acquaintance: a person known to one, but usually not a close friend.

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Acquaintance
Aquaintance

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65%

Retry Correct Incorrect Consensus is the correct spelling: general agreement or concord; harmony.

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Consensus
Concensus

Which is the correct spelling?

68%

Retry Correct Incorrect Are you having a dilemma choosing the correct spelling of these words? A situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives.

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Dilemma
Dilema

Which is the correct spelling?

70%

Retry Correct Incorrect Is spelling your favorite pastime? Something that serves to make time pass agreeably; a pleasant means of amusement, recreation, or sport:

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Pastime
Pasttime

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73%

Retry Correct Incorrect Memento is the correct spelling: An object or item that serves to remind one of a person, past event, etc

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Memento
Momento

Which is the correct spelling?

75%

Retry Correct Incorrect Mischievous isn’t spelled like how it’s pronounced sometimes: maliciously or playfully annoying.

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Which is the correct spelling?

Mischevious
Mischievous

Which is the correct spelling?

78%

Retry Correct Incorrect Personnel is the correct spelling: a body of persons employed in an organization or place of work.

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Which is the correct spelling?

Personell
Personnel

Which is the correct spelling?

80%

Retry Correct Incorrect Hope you were conscientious enough to pick the right answer: controlled by or done according to one’s inner sense of what is right; principled:

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Consciencious
Conscientious

Which is the correct spelling?

83%

Retry Correct Incorrect Don’t forget the ‘e’ in changeable: liable to change or to be changed; variable.

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Changable
Changeable

Which is the correct spelling?

85%

Retry Correct Incorrect Please don’t take your aggression out on us if you don’t pass this quiz: any offensive action, attack, or procedure.

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Agression
Aggression

Which is the correct spelling?

88%

Retry Correct Incorrect Double b’s in Caribbean: pertaining to the Caribs, the Lesser Antilles, or the Caribbean Sea and its islands.

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Carribean
Caribbean

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90%

Retry Correct Incorrect Your perseverance through this quiz is quite impressive: steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc.

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Which is the correct spelling?

Perseverance
Perseverence

Which is the correct spelling?

93%

Retry Correct Incorrect Fluorescent is the correct spelling: strikingly bright, vivid, or glowing.

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Which is the correct spelling?

Fluorescent
Flourescent

Which is the correct spelling?

95%

Retry Correct Incorrect Moving forward, you should never spell any of these words wrong again: toward the front.

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Which is the correct spelling?

Foward
Forward

Which is the correct spelling?

98%

Retry Correct Incorrect Gist is the correct spelling: the main or essential part of a matter.

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Which is the correct spelling?

Gist
Jist

Congrats, you finished! Here are your results:

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Congrats, you finished! Here are your results:

Retry Could have done a lot better! Did you pay attention at all in grade school? Ok, but… Looks like you need to crack open a dictionary… Pretty, pretty good You generally know how to spell but slip up sometimes, which is okay! Incredible. Spelling expert! You are a dictionary.

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