Spelling errors are silent score-killers in competitive exams like AFCAT and SSC. This post highlights some of the most commonly misspelt English words that confuse even the best-prepared candidates. Read on to sharpen your accuracy and avoid easy mistakes in the exam hall.
Here are the most commonly misspelled words from various Previous Years Question Paper which have been repeatedly asked in exams like AFCAT and SSC.
Accommodate ✅ – Wrong spellings: acommodate, accomodate ❌
Embarrass ✅ – Wrong spellings: embarass, embarras ❌
Questionnaire ✅ – Wrong spellings: questionaire, questonnaire ❌
Millennium ✅ – Wrong spellings: milennium, millenium ❌
Mischievous ✅ – Wrong spellings: mischievious, mischievus ❌
Government ✅ - Wrong spellings: goverment, govenment ❌
Occurrence ✅ - Wrong spellings: occurence, ocurrence ❌
Truly ✅ - Wrong spellings: truely, truley ❌
Privilege ✅ - Wrong spellings: privelege, privileg ❌
Believe ✅ - Wrong spellings: beleive, belive ❌
Judgment ✅ - Wrong spellings: judgement, judgemant ❌
Calendar ✅ - Wrong spellings: calender, callender ❌
Equipment ✅ - Wrong spellings: equiptment, equpment ❌
Definitely ✅ - Wrong spellings: definately, definitly ❌
Conscience ✅ - Wrong spellings: concience, consience ❌
Committee ✅ - Wrong spellings: commitee, committie ❌
Occurred ✅ - Wrong spellings: occured, ocured ❌
Receive ✅ - Wrong spellings: recieve, reseive ❌
Accommodation ✅ - Wrong spellings: acomodation, accomodation ❌
Persistence ✅ - Wrong spellings: persistance, persistense ❌
Acknowledgment ✅ - Wrong spellings: acknowlegement, acknowldgement ❌
Bureaucracy ✅ - Wrong spellings: beauracracy, bureacracy ❌
Category ✅ - Wrong spellings: catagory, catagary ❌
Discipline ✅ - Wrong spellings: descipline, disipline ❌
Threshold ✅ - Wrong spellings: threshhold, thresold ❌
Under time pressure, even simple words like “separate” or “definitely” can confuse a well-prepared aspirant. Revise these expected Misspelt Words to avoid losing marks in your upcoming AFCAT and SSC CGL Exams.
