{"id":760,"date":"2019-04-23T08:38:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T12:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguix.com\/blog\/?p=760"},"modified":"2023-09-11T18:15:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T22:15:18","slug":"12-confusing-english-words-and-how-to-spell-them-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguix.com\/blog\/12-confusing-english-words-and-how-to-spell-them-right\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Confusing English Words And How To Spell Them Right"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The English language is full of confusing words that are both tricky to correctly pick up and even spell. Below are some of the most commonly misspelled words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hint: you can use our <a href=\"https:\/\/linguix.com\/grammar-check\">free online grammar check tool<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/linguix.com\/paraphraser\">paraphrasing app<\/a> to fight those grammar issues.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-1-conscience-wrong-conscence\"><strong>1. conscience (Wrong: <em>conscence<\/em>)<\/strong><br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>First of all, remember that conscience is a noun denoting a person&#8217;s &#8220;inner feeling acting as a guide to rightness or wrongness of the behavior.&#8221; It is not conscious, an adjective, meaning that the person is awake and able to respond to surroundings. To write \u2018conscience\u2019 right, remember to put a \u2018science\u2019 inside this word as well.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2-maintenance-maintainence\"><strong>2. maintenance (<em>maintainence<\/em>)<\/strong><br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The tricky part here is that the word \u2018maintenance\u2019 which often directly connecting to maintaining something, does not have the \u2018maintain\u2019 part in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-3-recommend-reccommend-reccomend\"><strong>3. recommend (<em>reccommend, reccomend<\/em>)<\/strong><br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Words with doubled letters are often hard to spell and write because it may be unclear what letter to double. In this word, you may have the feeling that \u2018c\u2019 is worthy of duplicating, however, this is wrong.<br><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"942\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/linguix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/\u0421\u043d\u0438\u043c\u043e\u043a-\u044d\u043a\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0430-2019-04-23-\u0432-15.35.55.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-762\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-4-deductible-deductable\"><strong>4. deductible (<em>deductable<\/em>)<\/strong><br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Another confusing thing in English is -ible\/-able twist. It is so easy to confuse the endings in such words, and you&#8217;d better be very careful with them. In this example, the word \u2018deductible\u2019 has \u2018i\u2019 inside it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n    \n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-5-weird-wierd\"><strong>5. weird (<em>wierd<\/em>)<\/strong><br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The word that breaks the spelling rule (\u2018i\u2019 before \u2018e\u2019 except after \u2018c\u2019) which is totally weird, but you have to accept it.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-6-accommodate-acommodate-accomodate\"><strong>6. accommodate (<em>acommodate, accomodate<\/em>)<\/strong><br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, doubled letters are confusing. In this particular word, however, you can solve this puzzle by remembering that the word \u2018accommodate\u2019 literally \u2018accommodates\u2019 a lot of letters.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-7-pronunciation-pronounciation\"><strong>7. pronunciation (<em>pronounciation<\/em>)<\/strong><br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here the source of the mistakes lays in the fact that the verb form of this word is \u2018pronounce\u2019. But the noun does not have an \u2018o\u2019 in the middle! You need to remember it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/linguix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/\u0421\u043d\u0438\u043c\u043e\u043a-\u044d\u043a\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0430-2019-04-23-\u0432-15.36.43.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-763\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-8-supersede-supercede\"><strong>8. supersede (<em>supercede<\/em>)<\/strong><br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This word has a Latin origin. Also, many words in Engish were influenced by words like \u2018intercede\u2019, so you may think this one belongs to this group. It is not, and you should use \u2018s\u2019 instead of \u2018c\u2019 in the end.<br><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-9-handkerchief-hankerchief\"><strong>9. handkerchief (<em>hankerchief<\/em>)<\/strong><br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To spell and write this word right, you need to remember that these pieces of cloth fit in one&#8217;s hand! So there is a letter \u2018d\u2019 inside it.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-10-rhythm-rythm\"><strong>10. rhythm (<em>rythm<\/em>)<\/strong><br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The word with only one vowel should be tricky, and it is! Things get even more complicated with a couple of h\u2019s which are spread throughout the word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"836\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/linguix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/\u0421\u043d\u0438\u043c\u043e\u043a-\u044d\u043a\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0430-2019-04-23-\u0432-15.37.22.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-764\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-11-embarrass-embarass-embaress\"><strong>11. embarrass (<em>embarass, embaress<\/em>)<\/strong><br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here we have a good-old double letter puzzle! Also, vowels in this word are also tricky.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-12-liaison-liason\"><strong>12. liaison (<em>liason<\/em>)<\/strong><br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can easily spot French roots in this word thanks to this amazingly hard to spell triple vowel!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The English language is full of confusing words that are both tricky to correctly pick up and even spell. Below are some of the most commonly misspelled words. 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