- Athletics [noun], Athlete, Athletic [adjective: a tall athletic looking man], Gymnastics [noun], Gymnastic [adjective: a gymnastic display]
- Amends [Always plural]
- Absence
- Accommodate
- Achieve
- Acquire
- Across
- Apparent
- Awe, Awful, Awesome, Woeful
- Accept, Except
- Adverse, Averse (Strongly disliking; opposed)
- Advice, Advise
- Affect, Effect
- Aisle (A passage between rows of seats), Isle (An island)
- All together (all in one place, all at once), Altogether (Completely; on the whole)
- Altar (A sacred table in a church), Alter
- Amoral (Not concerned with right or wrong)
- Appraise, Apprise
- Assent (Agreement, approval), Ascent (the action of rising or climbing up)
- Aural (Relating to the ears or hearing), Oral (Relating to the mouth; spoken)
- Astronaut
- Asterisk
- Auditorium
- Adjure, conjurer
- Addict, Edict
- Boredom
- Benefit
- Benign
- Benefactor
- Benevolent
- Believe
- Breathe
- Brilliant
- Balmy (Pleasantly warm)
- Barmy (Foolish, crazy)
- Bare, Bear
- Bated (In phrase 'with bated breath', i.e. In great suspense)
- Baited (With bait attached or inserted)
- Bazaar (A middle eastern market), Bizarre (Strange) [‘a bizarre situation’ / ‘his behaviour became more and more bizarre’]
- Berth (A bunk in a ship, train, etc.)
- Birth (The emergence of a baby from the womb)
- Born (having started life)
- Borne (Carried)
- Bough (A branch of a tree)
- Bow (To bend the head; the front of a ship)
- Breach (To break through, or break a rule; a gap)
- Breech (The back part of a gun barrel)
- Broach (To raise a subject for discussion)
- Brooch (A piece of jewellery)
- Bourse
- Column
- Courteous [kɜː(r)tiəs]
- Clothes [Always plural]
- Calendar
- Careful
- Category
- Ceiling
- Cemetery [semətri]
- Convenience
- Conveyance [kənˈveɪəns]
- Canvas (A type of strong cloth)
- Canvass (To seek people’s votes)
- Censure (To criticize strongly)
- Censor (To ban parts of a book or film; a person who does this)
- Cereal (A grass producing an edible grain; a breakfast food made from grains)
- Chord (A group of musical notes)
- Cord (A length of string; a cord-like body part)
- Climactic (Forming a climax), Climatic (Relating to climate)
- Coarse (Rough)
- Course (A direction; a school subject; part of a meal)
- Complacent (Smug and self-satisfied)
- Complaisant (Willing to please)
- Complement (To add to so as to improve; an addition that improves something)
- Compliment (To praise or express approval; an admiring remark)
- Council (A group of people who manage or advise)
- Counsel (Advice; to advise)
- Cue (A signal for action; a wooden rod)
- Queue (A line of people or vehicles)
- Curb (To keep something in check; a control or limit), Kerb (the stone edge of a pavement)
- Current (Happening now; a flow of water, air, or electricity), Currant (A dried grape)
- Conducive
- Deduce
- Direct, Director [dəˈrektə(r) / daɪˈrektə(r)]
- Data, datum (deɪtʌm, singular)
- Dilemma [dɪˈlemə: a situation in which you have to make a difficult decision]
- Discipline
- Definite
- Defuse (To make a situation less tense), Diffuse (To spread over a wide area)
- Desert (dezə(r)t: A waterless, empty area; to abandon someone), Dessert (dɪˈzɜː(r)t: The sweet course of a meal)
- Discreet (Careful not to attract attention)
- Discrete (Separate and distinct)
- Disinterested (Impartial), Uninterested (Not interested)
- Drought (draʊt), Draught (drɑːft: A current of air)
- Draft (A first version of a piece of writing)
- Draw (An even score at the end of a game), Drawer (A sliding storage compartment)
- Dual (Having two parts), Duel (A fight or contest between two people)
- Doldrums
- Decisive, Divisive
- Doctrine [dɒktrɪn]
- Desperate
- Exaggerate
- Excellent
- Except
- Exercise
- Existence
- Expect
- Elicit (To draw out a reply or reaction), Illicit (Not allowed by law or rules)
- Ensure (To make certain that something will happen)
- Envelop (To cover or surround), Envelope (A paper container for a letter)
- Exercise (Physical activity; to do physical activity)
- Exorcise (To drive out an evil spirit)
- Ensure, Insure (To provide compensation if a person dies or property is damaged) Empathy, pathetic, apathy, pathos, antipathy
- Evacuate, vacate, vacancy, vacuous
- Envisage
- Eminence
- Folk [Always plural]
- Fascinating
- Four, Fourteen, Forty
- Finance, Financial
- Fawn (A young deer; light brown), Faun (A mythical being, part man, part goat)
- Flaunt (To display ostentatiously)
- Flout (To disregard a rule)
- Flounder (To move clumsily; to have difficulty doing something)
- Founder (To fail)
- Forbear (To refrain), Forebear (An ancestor)
- Forward (Onwards, ahead), Foreword (An introduction to a book)
- Freeze (To turn to ice), Frieze (A decoration along a wall)
- Fuss
- Fanciful
- Glasses [Always plural]
- Grateful
- Guarantee
- Guidance
- Grisly (Gruesome, revolting), Grizzly (A type of bear)
- Headquarters [Always plural]
- Happiness
- Heroes
- Humorous
- Hymn
- Hoard (A store), Horde (A large crowd of people)
- Imply (To suggest indirectly)
- Index [countable], indices [a plural of index]
- Infer (To draw a conclusion)
- Immoral (Not following accepted moral standards)
- Identity imaginary
- Imitation
- Immediately
- Incidentally
- Independent
- intelligent
- Interesting
- Interfere
- Interpretation
- Interruption
- Invitation
- Irrelevant
- Irritable
- Island
- Jewel, Jewellery
- Jealous
- Judge, Judgment, Adjudged
- Loath (Reluctant, unwilling), Loathe (To hate)
- Loose (To unfasten; to set free), Lose (To be deprived of; to be unable to find)
- Laboratory
- Loggerheads [Always plural]
- Lesson
- Lying
- Laboratory
- Length
- Lesson library
- License
- Loneliness
- Losing
- Lucid, Translucent, illuminate, elucidate
- Manners [plural: You can teach someone manners, not a manner]
- Meter (A measuring device), Metre (A metric unit; rhythm in verse)
- Mitigate (To make less severe), Militate (To be a powerful factor against)
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Miniature
- Minute
- Mysterious
- Marriage
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Miniature
- Minute mysterious
- Millennium
- Maintain, Maintenance
- Millionaire
- Manicure, pedicure
- Mannequin
- Necessary
- Narcissism, narcissist, narcissistic: a narcissistic personality disorder
- Noticeable
- Naturally
- Necessary
- Neighbor
- Neither noticeable
- Occasion
- Occurred
- Official
- Often
- Omission
- Operate
- Optimism
- Original
- Ought paid
- Occasion
- Occurred
- Omission
- Operate
- Optimism
- Original
- Ought paid
- Psychology, Psychiatrics, Psychiatric [adjective: psychiatric nursing/disorders]
- Palate (The roof of the mouth), Palette (A board for mixing colours)
- Pedal (A foot-operated lever), Peddle (To sell goods)
- Pole (A long, slender piece of wood), Poll (Voting in an election)
- Pour (To flow or cause to flow), Pore (A tiny opening; to study something closely)
- Practice (The use of an idea or method; the work or business of a doctor, dentist, etc.), Practise (To do something repeatedly to gain skill; to do something regularly)
- Prescribe (To authorize use of medicine; to order authoritatively), Proscribe (To officially forbid something)
- Principal (Most important; the head of a school), Principle (A fundamental rule or belief)
- Parallel
- Particularly
- Peculiar
- Perceive
- Permanent
- Persevere
- Personally
- Persuade
- Picture
- Piece
- Planning
- Pleasant
- Political
- Possess
- Possible
- Practical
- Prefer
- Prejudice
- Privilege
- Probably
- Professional
- Promise
- Parallel
- Particularly
- Peculiar
- Perceive
- Perform
- Permanent
- Persevere
- Possess
- Prefer
- Prejudice
- Privilege
- Promise
- Psychology
- Pseudonym
- Plagiarist
- Parity
- Quite [1. Fairly but not very: I was feeling quite tired after our walk. 2. Completely: Are you quite sure you know what to do?. 3. Very: They have achieved something quite extraordinary.], Quiet, Quit
- Quantity
- Quarter
- Quake
- Quack
- Questionnaire
- Receive
- Retrieve
- Receive
- Revision
- Repeat, Repetition
- Restaurant
- Rhythm
- Ridiculous
- Realize
- Recommend
- Reference
- Religious
- Resent
- Scissors [Always plural]
- Species [no singular]
- Social, Sociology [səʊʃiˈɒlədʒi]
- Sceptic (A person inclined to doubt), Septic (Infected with bacteria)
- Sight (The ability to see), Site (A location)
- Stationary (Not moving), Stationery (Writing materials)
- Storey (A level of a building), Story (A tale or account)
- Secretary
- Separate
- Soldier
- sacrifice
- safety
- secretary
- separate
- similar
- sincerely
- Sentient
- Serenity
- Titillate (To arouse interest), Titivate (To make more attractive)
- Tortuous (Full of twists; complex), Torturous (Full of pain or suffering)
- Temperature
- Temporary
- Thorough, through
- True, Truly
- Twelfth
- Till, Until
- Thanks [Always plural]
- Trousers [Always plural] Terrain, territory, extraterrestrial, terrace
- Weird
- Welcome
- Woeful
- Weather, WhetherWreath (A ring-shaped arrangement of flowers etc.), Wreathe (To surround or encircle)
- Who and whom: Who and whom perform two roles in English: they act as relative pronouns and interrogative pronouns. The basic grammatical rules which govern who and whom are simple to follow: you use who as the subject of a verb and you use whom as the object of a verb or a preposition. Wednesday
- Yolk (The yellow center of an egg), Yoke (A wooden crosspiece for harnessing a pair of oxen)
Problem words (Spelling, pronunciation)
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