When a word ends with a vowel followed by a consonant and then a silent e, the vowel has a long sound.

In British English, when you add the endings -ous, -ious, -ary, -ation, -ific, -ize, or -ise to a noun that ends in -our, you need to change the -our to -or.

When adding endings to words that end with a consonant plus -y, change the final y to i (unless the ending in question, such as -ish, already begins with an i).

Electronic Spell Checkers can miss errors, especially when you have used the wrong word but spelled it correctly.

Many adverbs are formed from adjectives and end in -ly.

Words with more than a set of double letters can sometimes be confusing.

Did you know that many misspell ‘achieve’ by spelling it as ‘acheive’?

Words containing two consecutive letters can sometimes be confusing.

Words containing two consecutive letters can sometimes be confusing.

It’s not uncommon for people to spell ‘Caucasian’ as ‘Caucasion’ (confusion in phonetics perhaps?).

Did you know that many misspell ‘conceive’ by spelling it as ‘concieve’?

Words that sound the same may sometimes confuse people.

It’s not uncommon for people to spell ‘Dalmatian’ as ‘Dalmation’ – possibly due to confusion surrounding the ‘shuhn’ sound in the word.

Words containing double letters can sometimes be confusing.

Spelling ‘environment’ as ‘enviroment’ is a common mistake.

Spelling ‘forty’ as ‘fourty’ is a common mistake, possibly due to the pronunciation of the word.

Knowing how to pronounce words correctly can help you to avoid some common spelling errors, such as canidate instead of candidate, jewelery instead of jewelry, and libary instead of library.

There are only three verbs in English that end in -ceed: succeed, proceed, and exceed.

Remember that the sound full at the end of a word is spelled with only one l.

When there are two vowels in a row, the first usually has a long sound and the second is silent.

In the spelling of English words, the letter q is always followed by the vowel u.