Spellings Questions

Multiple choice
  1. Condemanation

  2. Condemnation

  3. Condmenation

  4. Condmanation

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The correct spelling is 'Condemnation' with 'mn' preserved from the root 'condemn'. When adding '-ation' to words ending in consonant clusters, keep all original consonants. The stress shifts but the spelling remains consistent.

Multiple choice
  1. Epidemic

  2. Epidamic

  3. Epedemic

  4. Epademic

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The correct spelling is 'Epidemic' following the pattern 'e-p-i-d-e-m-i-c'. The 'e' after 'd' comes from the Greek root 'epi' meaning 'upon' and 'demos' meaning 'people'. Common misspellings often confuse the vowel placement.

Multiple choice
  1. Elementary

  2. Elemantry

  3. Elementery

  4. Elimantry

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The correct spelling is 'Elementary' with 'e-n-t-a-r-y' as the ending sequence. The word comes from 'element' with '-ary' suffix added. The middle vowel sequence is 'e-n-e' not 'e-a-e'.

Multiple choice
  1. Freight

  2. Freght

  3. Fraight

  4. Fraith

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The correct spelling is 'Freight' with 'ei' following 'fr'. This follows the 'i before e except after c' rule exception - after 'f' we use 'ei'. The 'gh' is silent and indicates a Germanic origin.

Multiple choice
  1. Fascinite

  2. Fascinate

  3. Fescinite

  4. Facinate

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The correct spelling is 'Fascinate' with 'sc' making the 's' sound. The word comes from Latin 'fascinatus'. Common errors include misspelling the 'sc' sequence or vowel placement in the middle syllable.

Multiple choice
  1. Holigan

  2. Hollian

  3. Hooligan

  4. Hoolegun

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The correct spelling is 'Hooligan' with double 'o' as in 'cool'. This term originated in the late 19th century. The vowel combination 'oo' creates the long vowel sound, and it ends with '-gan' not '-gun'.

Multiple choice
  1. Inavitable

  2. Inevitable

  3. Inevetable

  4. Inviteble

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The correct spelling is 'Inevitable' with 'ev' preserved from the root 'inevitable'. The prefix 'in-' meaning 'not' combines with 'evitable' from Latin 'evitare' meaning 'avoid'. The stress falls on the second syllable but spelling remains consistent.

Multiple choice
  1. Interruptian

  2. Interuption

  3. Interruption

  4. Intaruption

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The correct spelling is 'Interruption' with double 'r' and 'pt' preserved from 'interrupt'. When adding '-ion' to verbs ending in consonant clusters, keep all consonants. The root 'rupt' means 'break' in Latin.

Multiple choice
  1. Ocassion

  2. Ocasion

  3. Occasion

  4. Occession

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The correct spelling is 'Occasion' with double 'c' and single 's'. The first syllable 'oc-' is followed by another 'c' before the vowel 'a'. This follows the pattern of words where a short vowel is followed by double consonants.

Multiple choice
  1. Naugty

  2. Naughty

  3. Noughty

  4. Notee

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The correct spelling is 'Naughty' with 'au' creating the 'aw' sound and 'gh' being silent. The word relates to 'naught' meaning nothing, with '-y' suffix. The 'au' digraph is common in words like 'caught' or 'haunt'.

Multiple choice
  1. Pneumonia

  2. Pnaumonia

  3. Pnoumonia

  4. Pnimonia

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The correct spelling is 'Pneumonia' with 'pn' at the start where 'p' is silent. This Greek-derived medical term follows the pattern where 'p' before 'n' is unpronounced. The 'eu' makes a 'yoo' sound as in 'feud' or 'neutral'.

Multiple choice
  1. Profecent

  2. Proficient

  3. Proficiant

  4. Profocieant

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The correct spelling is Proficient with an i after f and ie before nt. The common mistakes are using e instead of i in the middle, or writing cie instead of ie. Option B is the only correctly spelled option among the choices.

Multiple choice
  1. Relevance

  2. Ralavance

  3. Relavance

  4. Relevence

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Relevance is spelled with ev not av, and ends with ance not ence. The root word is relevant, so maintain that v sound. Option A is correct while B, C, and D all have spelling errors in the middle vowels or ending.

Multiple choice
  1. Satisfactary

  2. Satisfoctory

  3. Satisfactory

  4. Satisfatry

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Satisfactory is the correct spelling with action ending. Option C is correct. The common errors shown are using o instead of a (B), or omitting the second a (D), or writing ry instead of cto (A). The noun is satisfaction, adjective is satisfactory.