How far can you go? This 50-item quiz about commonly misspelled English words may sharpen your mind and boost your knowledge about correct spelling of words. Try now and see what you got!

1. 50 items

2. Complete each sentence by looking for the
appropriate word and its spelling on every
numbered item. Get a pen and paper to count
your correct answers.
Good luck!

3. 1. More or less thirty ______ people were affected by
the Black Plague.
a) million
b) millioon
c) mellion
d) miliuon
Answer: a) million

4. 2. What an amazing courage to fight the _______!
a) opresors
b) opressors
c) oppressors
d) oppresors
Answer: c) oppressors

5. 3. The British and French colonizers came to the
_______ of the Qing regime.
a) assistance
b) asistance
c) asistence
d) assistans
Answer: a) assistance

6. 4. I live there, just ______ the Oakley Street.
a) accross
b) acros
c) across
d) accros
Answer: c) across

7. 5. _______ boxers are only allowed to join the boxing
competition for this year.
a) Ameture
b) Amateur
c) Amature
d) Ameteure
Answer: b) Amateur

8. 6. Waste segregation is _________ for sustaining the
cleanliness of every household.
a) benificial
b) benefichial
c) bineficial
d) beneficial
Answer: d) beneficial

9. 7. Isn’t it scary that we have to meet in front of the gate
of _______?
a) cematery
b) crematery
c) cemetary
d) cemetery
Answer: d) cemetery

10. 8. Give me an ________ reason why you were absent
yesterday.
a) acceptable
b) accepteble
c) aceptable
d) accepptable
Answer: a) acceptable

11. 9. ________ makes us admit our wrong doings to the
people we’ve hurt.
a) conscience
b) conscence
c) conciense
d) concience
Answer: a) conscience

12. 10. Full _______ to the job is the reason why she
finished her quarterly report early.
a) comitment
b) committment
c) commitment
d) comittment
Answer: c) commitment

13. 11.Are you _______ enough not to break up with that
irresponsible man?
a) desparet
b) desperate
c) dasperate
d) dasperet
Answer: b) desperate

14. 12. We ______ in front of the altar and bow our heads
as we pray for good health and guidance.
a) knil
b) neel
c) kneal
d) kneel
Answer: d) kneel

15. 13. I do not have the right to be ______.
a) jealous
b) jalous
c) jelous
d) jealos
Answer: a) jealous

16. 14. I have a _____ job but my salary is not enough to
pay our home bills.
a) permement
b) permanent
c) parmenent
d) permenent
Answer: b) permanent

17. 15. ________ of illegal drugs was the case being thrown
at him.
a) possession
b) possesion
c) posesion
d) posetion
Answer: a) possession

18. 16. Our friendly ________ Mike invited us to his
birthday party.
a) neighbur
b) neighbor
c) neghbour
d) neybour
Answer: b) neighbor

19. 17. When ________ knocks, grab it!
a) opurtunity
b) oppurtunity
c) opportunity
d) oportunity
Answer: c) opportunity

20. 18. According to the recipe, we must _____the egg yolk
and the egg white.
a) seperate
b) separate
c) saperate
d) seperete
Answer: b) separate

21. 19. A birthday _____ was given to Mike last night.
a) surprise
b) surprize
c) suprise
d) suprize
Answer: a) surprise

22. 20. I know you will become a ________ engineer
someday.
a) sucesfull
b) succesful
c) successful
d) sucesfool
Answer: c) successful

23. 21. Due to bad ______, her flight to Moscow was
cancelled.
a) weathar
b) weather
c) wedther
d) weathear
Answer: b) weather

24. 22. Their newly-bought _______ was named after their
dog.
a) yatch
b) yacth
c) yact
d) yacht
Answer: d) yacht

25. 23. The prescribed drugs will give you a ______ relief
from pain.
a) temporary
b) temporarie
c) temperary
d) temparory
Answer: a) temporary

26. 24. Let me first check my _______ before I go with you
tomorrow at the movie house.
a) skedule
b) shcedule
c) schedule
d) schedulle
Answer: c) schedule

27. 25. As a _______ of this class, I take full responsibility of
this misunderstanding.
a) representetive
b) representative
c) representitive
d) represantitive
Answer: b) representative

28. 26. Always ask for an official _______ when buying at
department stores and supermarkets.
a) reciept
b) recept
c) receit
d) receipt
Answer: d) receipt

29. 27. It is such a ______ to work with you all.
a) privelege
b) privilege
c) privilage
d) privelage
Answer: b) privilege

30. 28. Their research team gave us ________ to be
answered after class.
a) questionnaires
b) questionaires
c) questionnares
d) questionares
Answer: a) questionnaires

31. 29. Sigmund Freud is one of the remarkable persons in
the field of child __________.
a) psichology
b) psycology
c) psychology
d) phsychology
Answer: c) psychology

32. 30. She wears that dress only for special ________.
a) occations
b) occasions
c) ocassions
d) ocasions
Answer: b) occasions

33. 31. John is the ________ child of Mr. and Mrs. Reyes.
a) ligitimate
b) legitimeet
c) legitimate
d) ligetimate
Answer: c) legitimate

34. 32. Background ___________ is called schema.
a) knowlege
b) knawledge
c) knowlage
d) knowledge
Answer: d) knowledge

35. 33. Safety ________ should be done before riding a
rolling coaster.
a) precautions
b) precushions
c) precaucions
d) precoutions
Answer: a) precautions

36. 34. To drive up the hill was _______.
a) imposible
b) impossible
c) impassible
d) imposible
Answer: b) impossible

37. 35. Do not _______ her from doing her project. She
might get mad.
a) inter-apt
b) interapt
c) interupt
d) interrupt
Answer: d) interrupt

38. 36. The ______ company will give you enough money
to start a new life after the fire.
a) insurence
b) insiurance
c) insurance
d) inciurance
Answer: c) insurance

39. 37. Do not be ________ by the looks.
a) deceived
b) deceipt
c) diceived
d) decieved
Answer: a) deceived

40. 38. Their family _______ is the reason why they can
afford a two-week vacation in Japan.
a) bisness
b) bussiness
c) business
d) bisness
Answer: c) business

41. 39. President Duterte’s ________ against drugs was
taken seriously by the police force.
a) campaign
b) campagne
c) campayne
d) campaighne
Answer: a) campaign

42. 40. Smoking ______ may lead to lung cancer and
emphysema.
a) cigaretes
b) cigarettes
c) cigrretes
d) ciggarettes
Answer: b) cigarettes

43. 41. For room _________, kindly contact us through our
e-mail address.
a) accommodations
b) accomodations
c) acommodations
d) acomodations
Answer: a) accommodations

44. 42. I want to join the __________ on props.
a) commitee
b) comittee
c) committee
d) comitee
Answer: c) committee

45. 43. The ________ store was closed due to sanitary
issues.
a) convienience
b) conveenience
c) convinience
d) convenience
Answer: d) convenience

46. 44. Kindly look for the ___________ of literature.
a) difenition
b) defenition
c) definition
d) diffenition
Answer: c) definition

47. 45. Self- ________ is important when you are on a diet.
a) disciplene
b) discipline
c) discipleen
d) disiplene
Answer: b) discipline

48. 46. Do not ___________ how you tell your story. Some
people might get irritated.
a) exaggerate
b) exagerate
c) exagerrate
d) exaggerrate
Answer: a) exaggerate

49. 47. Your joke was quite ___________.
a) humurous
b) humorous
c) humourus
d) humoorous
Answer: b) humorous

50. 48. One of the most _______ people in show business is
Stan Lee.
a) influentcial
b) influwential
c) influencial
d) influential
Answer: d) influential

51. 49. No man is an ______.
a) island
b) isleland
c) iceland
d) ileland
Answer: a) island

52. 50. She was afraid of thunder and __________.
a) lightening
b) lighting
c) lightning
d) lightenning
Answer: c) lightning