It's enough to make anyone crazy!!This feature provides a guide to the most common problems when spelling words in English.
Swallowed Syllables - Three Syllables Pronounced as Two Syllables
Aspirin - pronounced - asprin
Different - pronounced - diffrent
Every - pronounced - evry
Swallowed Syllables - Four Syllables Pronounced as Three Syllables
Comfortable - pronounced - comftable
Temperature - pronounced - temprature
Vegetable - pronounced - vegtable
Homophones - Words That Sound the Same
two, to, too - pronounced - too
knew, new - pronounced - niew
through, threw - pronounced - throo
not, knot, naught - pronounced - not
Same Sounds - Different Spellings
'Eh' as in 'Let'
let
bread
said
'Ai' as in 'I'
I
sigh
buy
either
Next, click below to study spelling word problems with silent letters (for example: island) and letters combining to make different sounds (gh = f as in 'cough').
Silent Letters
B - comb, dumb
D - sandwich, Wednesday
G - sign, foreign
GH - daughter, light, right
H - why, honest, hour
K - know, knight, knob
L - should, walk, half
P - cupboard, psychology
S - island
T - whistle, listen, fasten
U - guess, guitar
W - who, write, wrong
Unusual Letter Combinations
GH = 'F'
cough, laugh, enough, rough
CH = 'K'
chemistry, headache, Christmas, stomach
EA = 'EH'
breakfast, head, bread, instead
EA = 'EI'
steak, break
EA = 'EE'
weak, streak
OU = 'UH' country, double, enoughRead Spelling Words in English 1
