English Grammar Today on Cambridge Dictionary - Spelling. Oxford Dictionaries - Spelling. Spelling matters.
If you want to create a good impression in your writing and make sure you get your meaning across clearly, it’s important to get your spelling right. This section contains lots of quick-reference spelling tips. For example, if you can never remember whether the plural of potato is spelled potatoes or potatos, then you can jump straight to plurals of nouns to get some straightforward advice. There’s also a handy list of common misspellings, arranged in alphabetical order of the incorrect spellings, and a guide to the differences between British and American spelling. Spell Check Game Instructions. Spelling & Vocabulary Website: SpellingCity. Spelling Bee . Intro. Spelling. Spelling matters.
If you want to create a good impression in your writing and make sure you get your meaning across clearly, it’s important to get your spelling right. This section contains lots of quick-reference spelling tips. For example, if you can never remember whether the plural of potato is spelled potatoes or potatos, then you can jump straight to plurals of nouns to get some straightforward advice. There’s also a handy list of common misspellings, arranged in alphabetical order of the incorrect spellings, and a guide to the differences between British and American spelling.
For more ways to improve your writing see our writing help section, or for more spelling tips see the list below: Spelling Bee. What are the different ways to play the Visual Thesaurus Spelling Bee?
There are two different ways to play. In the Tournament Spelling Bee, you'll be challenged by a series of words, with the spelling difficulty adapted to your skill level. The more words you get right, the higher your score will go, on a scale from 200 to 800. You can compete against other spellers, since we keep track of high scores (with streaks of correct answers serving as tiebreakers). You can also try a Community Spelling Bee generated from one of our subscribers' word lists. How does the Visual Thesaurus Spelling Bee work? Each turn, you'll hear the recording of the word and see its definition (with words suitably omitted that might give away the correct spelling). Skillswise - Spelling. BBC Learning English - Intermediate Unit 9 - -ough endings. BBC Learning English - Intermediate Unit 19 - Words with more than one spelling.
BBC Learning English - Intermediate Unit 21 - Commonly misspelled words. The Best Spelling Sites. There are a lot of sites out there designed for spelling practice.
I thought it would be helpful to create a “The Best…” list to narrow them down a bit. For English Language Learners, and for others, the best spelling sites are ones that offer audio and also use the words in the context of sentences: Catch The Spelling is a series of games specifically geared towards English Language Learners. The Alpha-Bot game. It’s a nice game where you first listen to the word spoken and then have to find the correct letters to spell it.
Spelling quizzes from The Interlink Language Center. Kidspell has a ton of spelling games, and you can also easily create ones using your own spelling lists. Word Sort is from Houghton Mifflin. The Visual Thesaurus Spelling Bee. The Spelling Bee from Annenberg Media. Spelling City has all the features that one can ask for, and is plenty of fun. Spellzone is a new interactive site to learn and practice…spelling. Spell is from The British Council. Related July 15, 2011. Common misspellings. Here’s a quick-reference guide to the top misspellings according to the Oxford English Corpus – an electronic collection of over 2 billion words of real English that helps us to see how people are using the language and also shows us the mistakes that are most often made.
The table gives the correct spelling of the word, handy tips on getting it right, and also the most common misspellings that we’ve found in our research, so you can check to see if any of the same mistakes have been tripping you up. Back to spelling. You may also be interested in: 100 Most Often Misspelled Words in English. ESL listening comprehension - Spoken English/pronunciation practice tests.