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The most commonly misspelled words in the English language

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Hi. We're here to ruin your day and spring an unannounced spelling test upon you, like your teacher used to.

You know, that teacher you didn't like as much as all the others.

We're here to make sure you know your 'divisive' from your 'divisible' and your 'assonance' from your 'sibilance'.

Sort of.

A recent Reddit thread asked people to list the words they found most difficult to spell, from the entire English language.

We've taken the most upvoted and added in a few of our own, to create a fiendish spelling test.

Take the quiz, below and let us know how well you do in the comments:

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