Most Frequently Misspelled Words
Lots of words on your spelling lists are marked with asterisks *. These are the words that are misspelled the most by students your age.
Pay special attention to these frequently misspelled words as you read, write, and practice your spelling words.
| too | again | everybody | happened | would |
| a lot | they | off | heard | are |
| because | Christmas | through | I | enough |
| there | went | friends | whole | except |
| their | until | swimming | didn't | friend's |
| favorite | outside | want | first | probably |
| that's | said | you're | watch | upon |
| our | we're | another | people | vacation |
| when | sometimes | beautiful | always | brought |
| really | different | I'm | took | house |
| they're | where | let's | everyone | might |
| were | caught | then | morning | myself |
| it's | chocolate | believe | school | basketball |
| know | friend | cousin | something | hospital |
| finally | into | especially | with | opened |
* Research in Action is a research project conducted in 1990-1993. This list of frequently misspelled words is one result of an analysis of 18,599 unedited compositions. Words are listed in the order of their frequency of misspelling.