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How to spot the wrong one

Foundation

In a 'find the misspelt word' question, check the double letters first.

Roughly two thirds of the words the exam sets turn on a doubled letter, and a dropped double is far more common than an added one. Scanning for doubles finds the answer faster than reading each word whole.

Accommodation, embarrass, occurrence, millennium.

each carries a double most people drop

Acommodation, embarass, occurence, millenium.

one letter short in every case

Where it bites

Where the correct word looks over-spelt. 'Accommodation' has two c's and two m's and looks wrong to almost everyone.