1. Ambaras
   Embarass
2. Embarrass
   Embarras

The correct spelling is "embarrass." It means "to be mortified, to feel shame or public awkwardness."

1. Nemonic
   Mnemonic
2. Pnemonic
   Newmonic

A mnemonic is a way of remembering something by using a pattern of letters. For example, you might remember the order of the planets from the sun with a sentence that starts with their initials.

1. Ammateur
   Ametur
2. Amettur
   Amateur

"Amateur" is a French loan word. It means a person who does something for fun or as a hobby, instead of doing it professionally for money!

1. Mantenane
   Maintanance
2. Maintanence
   Maintenance

"Maintenance" is a word with a French background. That's why even though "maintain" is spelled with an A, "maintenance" has an E.

1. Shedule
   Schedule
2. Skedule
   Scedule

Schedule is pronounced with a hard C sound in the U.S. In the UK it sounds more French, with a "sh" sound at the beginning.

1. Wired
   Wierd
2. Wiered
   Weird

You know how they say "I before E except after C"? Well, in this case, it's wrong. That is because weird is... weird.

1. Receive
   Recieve
2. Resieve
   Resive

You know how they say "I before E except after C"? That's why there's a C, and then an EI. Sometimes the rules are the rules.

1. Threshhold
   Threshald
2. Thrashold
   Threshold

Threshold seems like it comes from thresh+hold. Actually, it's from an Old English word "threscold," which is why there is only the one H.

1. Colonel
   Kernel
2. Curnel
   Kurnell

A kernel and a colonel are pronounced the same way! However, one is a little piece of corn, and the other is a fairly senior military rank.

1. Fiery
   Firey
2. Feiry
   Fierry

"I before E except after C" strikes again! It may be "fire" but it's still "fiery" when describing a thing that is like fire.

1. Gage
   Gauge
2. Gaje
   Gaj

It's pronounced "gage," but it has a U left over from its French progenitor. That makes it unlike "color" or "honor," which lost theirs in the Atlantic.

1. Harras
   Hares
2. Harass
   Harrass

Harass is not like embarrass (though the two experiences are sadly linked). That's why the emphasis in harass is on the "rass" and in embarrass, it's on the "barr."

1. Axceed
   Axcede
2. Ecceed
   Exceed

"Exceed" is a word that does actually require both consonants to be pronounced separately. It has this in common with "succeed."

1. Ignorance
   Ignarance
2. Ignorence
   Ignerance

"Ignorance" is a word that you really want to get right! The -ance or -ence ending of words like this is all about their Latin roots. Sadly, it can feel pretty arbitrary otherwise.

1. Joulry
   Jewellery
2. Jewelry
   Joulery

"Jewelry" is correct in the U.S. In the U.K., however, the correct spelling is "jewellery."

1. Liaison
   Leason
2. Liason
   Laison

This is another French one! The "li" makes one syllable, while the "ai" makes another.

1. Libary
   Lirbary
2. Library
   Lybrary

Library is often abused in the pronunication, as "libary." That's why so many people forget the first R in spelling it. However, it is not a tricky word; it is said the same way that it is spelled.

1. Principle
   Principell
2. Principale
   Principal

A principal should have principles, but they are not spelled the same way. One means the head of a school or a featured player in a group. The other means a guiding moral tenet.

1. Rellevant
   Relevent
2. Relevant
   Ralievent

This is one you really just have to learn. It sounds like it has a double letter L and could end -ent. However, it hasn't, and it doesn't!

1. Veerment
   Vierment
2. Vehement
   Vearment

"Vehement" is a French word with a heavily Anglicized pronunciation. There aren't really any rules to help on this one; it just has to be learned by rote.

1. Vakum
   Vacewm
2. Vaccum
   Vacuum

It would suck not to spell this one right! Vacuum's Latin root has three syllables which is where it gets the double U. It's a relation of "vacuous," meaning empty, which is rather apt!

1. Accommodate
   Acomodate
2. Accomodate
   Acommodate

Accommodate this word by using two Cs and two Ms. "Commode" also has two Ms.

1. Bizness
   Business
2. Busness
   Bisness

Business literally comes from "busy-ness." However, it is pronounced BIZ-ness. The origin is a useful way to think of the word, though.

1. Dilemna
   Dilemma
2. Dilenma
   Dilenna

This word is spelled as it is said. This is not an American simplification. There was never an N. People who remember one had a teacher who got it wrong!

1. Forrin
   Forrein
2. Forrain
   Foreign

It rhymes with "sporran" but it looks so... foreign. That's because it is! This word is so French, it's riding a bike and carrying a string of garlic. That's why there is a silent G, a common feature of French. If you have a glass of champagne and put your hair in a chignon, it'll all make more sense.

1. Exstacy
   Exstasy
2. Ecstasy
   Ecstacy

If you are a huge nerd, remember this one by thinking of CSS, the HTML language. If you are not, just try to memorize it.

1. Gist
   Jist
2. Shist
   Jiest

The G here is not hard. G is usually soft, and thus pronounced like a J, when it is followed by an E or an I. It's hard with the other vowels.

1. Humorous
   Humorous
2. Humerus
   Hoomerus

A humerus is also called a funny bone. This is entirely because of the name. It's actually incredibly unfunny when you hit yours.

1. Siege
   Seej
2. Sege
   Cege

"Siege" is taken directly from French. It's not quite a typical soft G, though, as it is more like the G in "aubergine."

1. Grammer
   Grammar
2. Gramer
   Gramar

"Grammar" is a bad word to spell incorrectly, as it is intimately bound up with spelling. It means the rules of word order, punctuation use and sentence structure.

1. Ninety
   Ninty
2. Ninnty
   Nynty

Ninety has an E. Indeed, numbers tend not to mess around in their full pronunciations; if there is an E, we should hear it and see it!

1. Acceptable
   Exceptable
2. Aceptable
   Axceptable

This word has two hard sounds where the double C appears: ack-sep-tah-bull It's more confusing, though, as it looks like a double letter, but it's not operating like one.

1. Parralel
   Paralell
2. Parallel
   Paralel

The double L in parallel is often mistakenly put at the end. The trick to putting it where it belongs is to remember that in this case the parallel lines are in the middle. As for the number of Rs, that's just the prefix "par" showing up, as it often does!

1. Recede
   Resed
2. Resied
   Reseed

Recede, exceed, accede, etc., are all difference prefixes on the same word: cede. It's pronounced the same as "seed" but comes from the Latin "cedere," meaning to yield.

1. Mier
   Mear
2. Mere
   Meer

A meer is a body of water in German. Mere is what you call something that only just meets requirements.