Monkey

Quiz Monkey
What do you want to know?

You are here:

Language
Spelling

Spelling

I resisted having a Spelling category for many years; I suspected that there may be too many potential words to make it worthwhile (because you can never hope to get a list that's anywhere near complete).  Also, in a Quiz League format (where, if one team gives the wrong answer, it's passed over to the other team for a bonus) they don't work so well because often there are rarely more than two or three possible answers.

But spelling questions are always popular (it was one of the eight first-round categories in Bullseye, after all) and it happens to be a favourite subject of mine personally.

I think what follows is an interesting selection.  Try checking these with Bully:

ACCELERATE ACCIDENTALLY ACCOMMODATE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ACQUAINTANCE
ACQUIESCE ACQUIT ANALYSIS ANTIMACASSAR ANTIRRHINUM
ASCETICISM AUTOCHTHONOUS BELLWETHER BOUGAINVILLEA BOURGEOISIE
BROCCOLI BUREAUCRAT CEILIDH CEMETERY CHIHUAHUA
CHLOROPHYLL CHRYSANTHEMUM COLLOQUIAL COMMEMORATE COMMITTEE
CONNOISSEUR CONSENSUS COROLLARY CORRELATE DAIQUIRI
DECEITFUL DEFINITELY DESICCATE DIARRHOEA DIPHTHERIA
DISAPPOINT DULCIMER DUMBBELL DYSLEXIA ECSTASY
ECZEMA EMBARRASSED EXISTENCE FIERY FLABBERGASTED
FLUORESCENT FRACAS FULFIL GAUGE GENIUS
GNEISS GRAMMAR GOVERNMENT GUARANTEE HAEMORRHAGE
HARASS HIERARCHY HIPPOPOTAMUS HYPOCRISY IDIOSYNCRASY
IMMEDIATELY INADVERTENT INNOCUOUS INOCULATE IRRESISTIBLE
KAMIKAZE KINDERGARTEN LIAISON MACAQUE MANOEUVRE
MILLENNIUM MINUSCULE MISCELLANEOUS MISCHIEVOUS MNEMONIC
MOCCASIN MYXOMATOSIS NECESSARY OBSEQUIOUS OCCASIONALLY
OCCURRENCE ONOMATOPOEIA OPHTHALMOLOGY PARALLEL PEJORATIVE
PEREMPTORY PERJURY PERSEVERANCE PHARAOH PHOSPHORESCENCE
PHYSIOGNOMY PLAGIARISE PRECEDE PREROGATIVE PRIVILEGE
PROCEED PRONUNCIATION PROPAGATE PROSAIC PSYCHIATRY
RECEIPT RECOMMEND REFEREE REPERTOIRE RHODODENDRON
SACRILEGIOUS SARCOPHAGUS SCHADENFREUDE SECRETARY SEIZE
SEPARATE SHERIFF SIEVE SUPERSEDE SYNONYMOUS
VACUUM VERRUCA VIGNETTE WEIRD WITHHOLD

© Haydn Thompson 2017–25