The Most Commonly Misspelled Words in English . English spelling can be tricky due to silent letters, double letters, and homophones. Common misspellings like "definately" for "definitely" and ...

Roughly 85% of English spelling follows one of multiple recognizable phonics patterns. The remaining 15% of written English words simply have to be memorized or discerned from context.

Only four letters (A, E, O, L) are doubled at the beginning of a word (aardvark, eel, ooze, llama, etc.), and more words start with double O than any others in the English language. 16 / 26 ...

A long-term English learner is a student who has been enrolled in school in the U.S. for six or more years but has not yet become fluent in English. Whereas students who speak English fluently already ...

Some words have letters that we don't hear when we say them, these are called silent letters. Find out more in this Bitesize Primary KS2 English guide.

Silent letters are the scourge of spellers and often a stumbling block when learning how to write in English. To the modern eye, it’s unclear what these letters are doing in the words in ...