Quick answer
Do not try to memorise all 100 words at once. Study a small group, say each word, type it from memory and revisit the words you still miss.
100 spellings to practise
The first column shows the correct Australian English spelling. The second shows one frequent error.
| No. | Correct spelling | Common error |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | accommodation | |
| 2 | acknowledge | |
| 3 | achievement | |
| 4 | address | |
| 5 | appearance | |
| 6 | argument | |
| 7 | atheist | |
| 8 | beautiful | |
| 9 | beginning | |
| 10 | believe | |
| 11 | bizarre | |
| 12 | business | |
| 13 | calendar | |
| 14 | column | |
| 15 | comfortable | |
| 16 | committee | |
| 17 | conscience | |
| 18 | convenient | |
| 19 | correspondence | |
| 20 | curiosity | |
| 21 | deceive | |
| 22 | definitely | |
| 23 | desperate | |
| 24 | dilemma | |
| 25 | discipline | |
| 26 | eighth | |
| 27 | embarrassment | |
| 28 | environment | |
| 29 | exaggerate | |
| 30 | excitement | |
| 31 | exercise | |
| 32 | existence | |
| 33 | experience | |
| 34 | failure | |
| 35 | fascinate | |
| 36 | February | |
| 37 | finally | |
| 38 | fluorescent | |
| 39 | foreign | |
| 40 | forty | |
| 41 | friend | |
| 42 | grammar | |
| 43 | guarantee | |
| 44 | government | |
| 45 | harass | |
| 46 | height | |
| 47 | humorous | |
| 48 | hypocrisy | |
| 49 | immediately | |
| 50 | independent | |
| 51 | interrupt | |
| 52 | jewellery | |
| 53 | knowledge | |
| 54 | knowledgeable | |
| 55 | language | |
| 56 | library | |
| 57 | maintenance | |
| 58 | manoeuvre | |
| 59 | millennium | |
| 60 | miniature | |
| 61 | mischievous | |
| 62 | narrative | |
| 63 | necessary | |
| 64 | noticeable | |
| 65 | occasion | |
| 66 | occurrence | |
| 67 | opinion | |
| 68 | opportunity | |
| 69 | parallel | |
| 70 | perseverance | |
| 71 | persuade | |
| 72 | possession | |
| 73 | preferred | |
| 74 | privilege | |
| 75 | pronunciation | |
| 76 | questionnaire | |
| 77 | receipt | |
| 78 | receive | |
| 79 | recommend | |
| 80 | restaurant | |
| 81 | rhythm | |
| 82 | schedule | |
| 83 | separate | |
| 84 | sincerely | |
| 85 | successful | |
| 86 | surprise | |
| 87 | temperature | |
| 88 | temporary | |
| 89 | thorough | |
| 90 | thoughtful | |
| 91 | tomorrow | |
| 92 | tragedy | |
| 93 | tranquillity | |
| 94 | until | |
| 95 | vacuum | |
| 96 | vocabulary | |
| 97 | Wednesday | |
| 98 | weird | |
| 99 | whether | |
| 100 | withhold |
How to improve your spelling
- Choose 10 words, not the whole list.
- Listen to the word and say it aloud.
- Cover the spelling and type it from memory.
- Use the word in a sentence.
- Review mistakes again tomorrow and next week.
Use our free Spelling Centre for listening and typing practice, or build topic-based word knowledge in the Vocabulary Centre.