SSC CGL commonly misspelt words
261 entries. The correct spelling next to the version people usually write. Spot the wrong form quickly by remembering the part that trips most people.
| Correct | Often written | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Abbreviation | Abreviation | A shortened form of a word |
| Absence | Absense | The state of being away |
| Acceptable | Acceptible | Good enough to be allowed |
| Accessible | Accessable | Able to be reached or entered |
| Accidentally | Accidentaly | By chance, not on purpose |
| Accommodate | Accomodate | Provide space or lodging for |
| Achieve | Acheive | Succeed in doing |
| Acknowledge | Acknowlege | Admit or accept the truth of |
| Acquaintance | Aquaintance | A person one knows slightly |
| Acquire | Aquire | Obtain |
| Across | Accross | From one side to the other |
| Address | Adress | Where someone lives; speak to |
| Adolescent | Adolescant | A young person between childhood and adulthood |
| Advertisement | Advertisment | A public notice promoting a product |
| Aggressive | Agressive | Ready to attack or confront |
| Allegiance | Allegience | Loyalty to a person, group or country |
| Annihilate | Anihilate | Destroy completely |
| Anonymous | Anonymus | Of unknown name |
| Apparent | Apparant | Clearly visible; seeming |
| Appearance | Appearence | The way someone or something looks |
| Appreciate | Apreciate | Recognise the value of |
| Argument | Arguement | An exchange of opposing views |
| Assassination | Assasination | The murder of an important person |
| Attendance | Attendence | Presence at a place or event |
| Auxiliary | Auxilliary | Giving extra help or support |
| Awkward | Awkard | Clumsy or embarrassing |
| Beginning | Begining | The start |
| Believe | Beleive | Accept as true |
| Beneficial | Benificial | Producing good results |
| Boundary | Boundry | A line marking the limits of an area |
| Brilliant | Briliant | Very bright or very clever |
| Bureaucracy | Beaurocracy | Government by officials |
| Burglar | Burgular | A person who breaks into a building to steal |
| Business | Buisness | Trade; commercial activity |
| Calendar | Calender | A chart of days and months |
| Catastrophe | Catastrophy | A sudden great disaster |
| Category | Catagory | A class or group of things |
| Cemetery | Cemetary | A burial ground |
| Challenge | Challange | A call to prove one’s ability |
| Changeable | Changable | Likely to change |
| Characteristic | Charecteristic | A typical feature or quality |
| Chauffeur | Chauffer | A person paid to drive a car |
| Cigarette | Cigarete | Cut tobacco rolled in thin paper for smoking |
| Circumstance | Circumstence | A condition connected with an event |
| Colleague | Collegue | A fellow worker |
| Column | Colum | A tall pillar; a vertical block of print |
| Commemorate | Comemorate | Recall and honour publicly |
| Commitment | Committment | Dedication; a promise |
| Committee | Commitee | A group appointed for a task |
| Comparative | Comparitive | Measured by comparing with something else |
| Competition | Compitition | A contest between rivals |
| Conceive | Concieve | Form an idea; become pregnant |
| Condemn | Condem | Express strong disapproval |
| Connoisseur | Connoisuer | An expert judge of taste |
| Conqueror | Conquerer | One who defeats and takes over |
| Conscience | Concience | Inner sense of right and wrong |
| Conscientious | Conscientous | Careful and diligent |
| Conscious | Concious | Aware; awake |
| Consensus | Concensus | General agreement |
| Consistent | Consistant | Always behaving in the same way |
| Controversy | Contraversy | A public disagreement |
| Convenience | Convienence | Ease and suitability for one’s needs |
| Curiosity | Curiousity | A strong desire to know |
| Deceive | Decieve | Make someone believe something false |
| Defendant | Defendent | A person accused in a court of law |
| Definitely | Definately | Without doubt |
| Description | Discription | An account in words of something |
| Despair | Dispair | Complete loss of hope |
| Desperate | Desparate | Feeling hopeless; in great need |
| Develop | Develope | Grow or cause to grow |
| Dictionary | Dictionery | A book that explains words |
| Different | Diffrent | Not the same |
| Dilemma | Dilemna | A situation of difficult choice |
| Disappear | Dissapear | Go out of sight |
| Disappoint | Dissapoint | Fail to meet hopes |
| Disastrous | Disasterous | Causing great damage |
| Discipline | Disipline | Training to obey rules |
| Discrepancy | Discrepency | A lack of agreement between facts |
| Dissatisfied | Disatisfied | Not content |
| Eighth | Eigth | Coming after the seventh |
| Eligible | Eligable | Qualified to be chosen |
| Embarrass | Embarass | Make someone feel awkward |
| Entrepreneur | Enterpreneur | One who starts a business |
| Environment | Enviroment | Surroundings |
| Equipment | Equiptment | The tools needed for a task |
| Especially | Expecially | To a particular degree |
| Essential | Esential | Absolutely necessary |
| Exaggerate | Exagerate | Overstate |
| Exceed | Excede | Go beyond a limit |
| Excellent | Excelent | Extremely good |
| Exhilarate | Exhilerate | Make very happy and lively |
| Existence | Existance | The state of being |
| Experience | Experiance | Knowledge gained by doing things |
| Explanation | Explaination | A statement that makes something clear |
| Extraordinary | Extraordinery | Very unusual or remarkable |
| Familiar | Familar | Well known from long acquaintance |
| Fascinate | Facinate | Attract strongly |
| February | Febuary | The second month of the year |
| Fiery | Firey | Burning or hot-tempered |
| Financial | Finencial | Related to money matters |
| Fluorescent | Flourescent | Giving off bright light |
| Foreign | Foriegn | Of another country |
| Forty | Fourty | The number after thirty-nine |
| Gauge | Guage | Measure; a measuring device |
| Genius | Genious | Exceptional creative or intellectual power |
| Glamorous | Glamourous | Attractive in an exciting way |
| Gorgeous | Gorgeus | Strikingly beautiful |
| Government | Goverment | The body that governs a state |
| Grammar | Grammer | Rules of a language |
| Guarantee | Garantee | A formal assurance |
| Guard | Gaurd | Protect; a person who protects |
| Guidance | Guidence | Advice or direction |
| Handkerchief | Handkerchef | A small square of cloth |
| Happiness | Happyness | The state of being happy |
| Harass | Harrass | Trouble persistently |
| Height | Heighth | Measurement from bottom to top |
| Hierarchy | Heirarchy | A system of ranks |
| Hindrance | Hinderance | A thing that obstructs |
| Humorous | Humourous | Funny |
| Hygiene | Hygeine | Practices that keep one healthy |
| Hypocrisy | Hypocracy | Pretending to have virtues one lacks |
| Idiosyncrasy | Idiosyncracy | A person’s peculiar habit or feature |
| Ignorance | Ignorence | Lack of knowledge |
| Imagination | Immagination | The power to form mental pictures |
| Immediately | Immediatly | At once |
| Incidentally | Incidently | By the way |
| Incredible | Incredable | Hard to believe |
| Independent | Independant | Free from outside control |
| Indispensable | Indispensible | Absolutely necessary |
| Inoculate | Innoculate | Protect against disease by injecting a vaccine |
| Intelligence | Inteligence | Ability to learn and understand |
| Interrupt | Interupt | Break into a speaker’s talk |
| Irresistible | Irresistable | Too strong to resist |
| Jealous | Jelous | Resentful of another’s success |
| Knowledge | Knowlege | Facts and skills acquired |
| Laboratory | Labratory | A room for scientific experiments |
| Labyrinth | Labrynth | A complicated network of paths; a maze |
| Legitimate | Legitamate | Allowed by law; reasonable |
| Leisure | Liesure | Free time |
| Liaison | Liason | Communication or link between groups |
| Library | Libary | A collection of books |
| Licence | Lisence | An official permit |
| Lieutenant | Leiutenant | A junior military officer |
| Lightning | Lightening | A flash of electricity in the sky |
| Liquefy | Liquify | Make or become liquid |
| Loneliness | Lonliness | Sadness from being alone |
| Magnificent | Magnificant | Splendid and impressive |
| Maintenance | Maintainance | Upkeep |
| Manoeuvre | Manuever | A skilful or planned movement |
| Marriage | Marraige | The legal union of two people |
| Mathematics | Mathmatics | The science of numbers and shapes |
| Medicine | Medecine | A substance used to treat illness |
| Mediterranean | Mediteranean | The sea between Europe and Africa |
| Memento | Momento | An object kept as a reminder |
| Millennium | Millenium | A period of a thousand years |
| Miniature | Miniture | A very small version of something |
| Miscellaneous | Miscellanious | Of various kinds |
| Mischievous | Mischievious | Playfully troublesome |
| Misspell | Mispell | Spell wrongly |
| Mortgage | Morgage | A loan to buy property |
| Necessary | Neccessary | Needed |
| Noticeable | Noticable | Easily seen |
| Nuisance | Nuisence | A person or thing that annoys |
| Obedience | Obedeince | Willingness to follow orders |
| Occasion | Occassion | A particular event or time |
| Occurred | Occured | Happened |
| Occurrence | Occurence | An incident or event |
| Omission | Ommission | Something left out |
| Opportunity | Oppurtunity | A favourable chance |
| Opposite | Oposite | Completely different; facing |
| Outrageous | Outragous | Shockingly bad or excessive |
| Pamphlet | Pamphelet | A small booklet with information |
| Parallel | Paralell | Side by side and equally distant |
| Parliament | Parliment | The national legislature |
| Pastime | Passtime | An activity done for enjoyment |
| Peculiar | Peculier | Strange or odd |
| Permanent | Permenant | Lasting for ever |
| Permissible | Permissable | Allowed |
| Perseverance | Perseverence | Persistence despite difficulty |
| Persistent | Persistant | Continuing firmly in spite of difficulty |
| Personnel | Personel | People employed in an organisation |
| Phenomenon | Phenomenom | A remarkable fact or event |
| Physician | Physican | A doctor of medicine |
| Playwright | Playwrite | A person who writes plays |
| Pneumonia | Pnuemonia | A lung infection |
| Politician | Politican | A person active in politics |
| Possession | Posession | Something owned |
| Precede | Preceed | Come before |
| Preferred | Prefered | Liked better |
| Prejudice | Predjudice | An unfair opinion formed without knowledge |
| Prescription | Perscription | A doctor’s written order for medicine |
| Presence | Presense | The fact of being in a place |
| Privilege | Priviledge | A special right or advantage |
| Procedure | Proceedure | An established way of doing something |
| Proceed | Procede | Go forward; continue |
| Professor | Proffesor | A senior university teacher |
| Prominent | Prominant | Well known; easily seen |
| Pronunciation | Pronounciation | The way a word is spoken |
| Psychology | Pyschology | The study of the mind and behaviour |
| Publicly | Publically | In an open manner |
| Pursue | Persue | Follow in order to catch or achieve |
| Quarantine | Quarentine | Isolation to prevent the spread of disease |
| Questionnaire | Questionaire | A set of printed questions |
| Queue | Que | A line of people waiting |
| Really | Realy | In truth; very |
| Receive | Recieve | Get or be given |
| Recipe | Recepie | Instructions for cooking a dish |
| Recommend | Reccomend | Suggest as suitable |
| Reference | Refrence | A mention; a source |
| Referred | Refered | Mentioned or sent for information |
| Relevant | Relevent | Closely connected to the matter |
| Religious | Religous | Connected with belief in God |
| Remembrance | Rememberance | The act of remembering |
| Rendezvous | Rendevous | A meeting at an agreed place |
| Repetition | Repitition | The act of doing or saying again |
| Resemblance | Resemblence | Similarity in appearance |
| Reservoir | Reservior | A large lake for storing water |
| Resistance | Resistence | The act of opposing |
| Responsibility | Responsibilty | A duty to deal with something |
| Restaurant | Restaurent | A place to buy and eat meals |
| Rhythm | Rythm | A regular repeated pattern of sound |
| Ridiculous | Rediculous | Deserving to be laughed at |
| Sacrifice | Sacrafice | Give up something valued for a cause |
| Sacrilegious | Sacreligious | Disrespectful to something holy |
| Schedule | Schedual | A plan of times |
| Scissors | Sissors | A tool with two blades for cutting |
| Secretary | Secratary | A person who handles letters and records |
| Sentence | Sentance | A group of words expressing a complete thought |
| Separate | Seperate | Set apart |
| Sergeant | Sargeant | A non-commissioned officer |
| Siege | Seige | Surrounding a place to capture it |
| Silhouette | Silhouete | A dark outline against a light background |
| Sincerely | Sincerly | In a genuine way |
| Souvenir | Souvineer | An object kept as a reminder of a place |
| Strength | Strenth | The quality of being strong |
| Subtle | Subtel | So slight as to be hard to notice |
| Successful | Sucessful | Achieving the desired aim |
| Suggestion | Sugestion | An idea put forward for consideration |
| Supersede | Supercede | Take the place of |
| Surprise | Suprise | An unexpected event |
| Temperature | Temperture | How hot or cold something is |
| Tendency | Tendancy | An inclination to behave in a certain way |
| Threshold | Threshhold | A doorway; a starting point |
| Tomorrow | Tommorow | The day after today |
| Truly | Truely | In a sincere or accurate way |
| Twelfth | Twelth | Coming after the eleventh |
| Tyranny | Tyrrany | Cruel and oppressive rule |
| Unnecessary | Unneccessary | Not needed |
| Until | Untill | Up to the time of |
| Usually | Usualy | In the normal way |
| Vacuum | Vaccum | A space empty of matter |
| Vegetable | Vegtable | A plant grown for food |
| Vehicle | Vehical | A machine that carries people or goods |
| Villain | Villian | A wicked character or person |
| Visible | Visable | Able to be seen |
| Wednesday | Wensday | The day after Tuesday |
| Weird | Wierd | Strange |
| Withhold | Withold | Refuse to give |
| Writing | Writting | The activity of putting words on paper |
| Yacht | Yatch | A sailing boat used for pleasure or racing |
| Zealous | Zelous | Full of eager enthusiasm |
Meanings are short study notes written for revision, not dictionary entries. When an option in the exam fits the sentence better, trust the sentence.