Nine other words that trip up students
The study found that spelling mistakes ranked highest among the types of language errors. PHOTO: ST FILE
If you find yourself struggling to spell words like receive and successful, you are not alone.
A recent study by Edubirdie, a professional essay writing service, revealed that these are among the most commonly misspelt words found in essays submitted to it - by students in the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia - for editing between 2019 and 2020. The study analysed the grammatical mistakes made by students in their essays, going through more than 500,000 words in total.
Top 10 misspelt words:
- Tomorrow: Misspelt as tommorow
- Which: Misspelt as wich
- Completely: Misspelt as completly
- Receive: Misspelt as recieve
- Until: Misspelt as untill
- Finally: Misspelt as finaly
- Successful: Misspelt as succesful
- Beginning: Misspelt as begining
- Definitely: Misspelt as definately
- Government: Misspelt as goverment
