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Spelling correction worksheet for students to practice identifying and fixing common misspelled words.

Worksheet titled "Correct the Spelling" with a green header and a pencil graphic, featuring 20 misspelled words to be corrected.

Worksheet titled "Correct the Spelling" with a green header and a pencil graphic, featuring 20 misspelled words to be corrected.

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Let’s go through each misspelled word and find the correct spelling.

1. “somthing” → missing ‘e’ after ‘th’ → something
2. “around” → already spelled correctly! But since it’s listed as misspelled, maybe a trick? Wait — no, actually “around” is correct. Hmm… but the worksheet says all are misspelled. Let me double-check: perhaps it’s meant to be “aound”? No, written as “around”. Maybe it’s a test — if it’s already right, leave it? But instructions say “write correct spelling”, implying they’re all wrong. Actually, looking again — maybe it’s “arround”? No, user wrote “around”. I think this might be an error in the sheet, but we’ll assume it’s intentional and just write the correct form — which is still around.
Wait — let’s check others first.

Actually, better approach: treat every word as having one or more errors and fix them.

3. “begining” → should have double ‘n’ → beginning
4. “evrybody” → missing ‘e’ after ‘v’ → everybody
5. “posible” → missing double ‘s’ → possible
6. “soool” → extra ‘o’, should be two ‘o’s → school
7. “troble” → should be ‘ou’ not ‘o’ → trouble
8. “untill” → only one ‘l’ at end → until
9. “exept” → should be ‘x’ then ‘c’ → except
10. “allso” → should be ‘also’ without extra ‘l’ → also

Now second column:

11. “beleive” → common mistake — ‘ei’ vs ‘ie’ → rule: “i before e except after c” — here no ‘c’, so should be believe
12. “laff” → should be ‘ff’ at end? No — “laugh” ends with ‘gh’. So laugh
13. “excellant” → should be ‘e’ not ‘a’ before last ‘t’ → excellent
14. “discribe” → should be ‘b’ not ‘c’ after ‘r’ → describe
15. “probaly” → missing ‘b’ → probably
16. “favo rit” → wait, written as “favorit” → should have ‘u’ after ‘o’ → favorite (or favoured? In US English, favorite) → favorite
17. “allways” → should be single ‘l’ → always
18. “pe opel” → probably “people” → people
19. “boght” → should be ‘ough’ → bought
20. “nieghbor” → tricky — should be ‘i-e-i-g-h-b-o-r’? No — standard is neighbor (US) or neighbour (UK). Since worksheet uses US-style elsewhere, go with neighbor

Double-check #2: “around” — if it’s truly spelled correctly, then answer is still “around”. Maybe the worksheet has a typo, but we follow what’s given.

Final list:

1. something
2. around
3. beginning
4. everybody
5. possible
6. school
7. trouble
8. until
9. except
10. also
11. believe
12. laugh
13. excellent
14. describe
15. probably
16. favorite
17. always
18. people
19. bought
20. neighbor

All checked. Ready for final answer.

Final Answer:
1. something
2. around
3. beginning
4. everybody
5. possible
6. school
7. trouble
8. until
9. except
10. also
11. believe
12. laugh
13. excellent
14. describe
15. probably
16. favorite
17. always
18. people
19. bought
20. neighbor
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