Check Your Spelling Knowledge With This Test

American English. Try and get it right.

Both "kneed" and "knead" are correct. They have two very different meanings, are spelled differently, but are homophones.

12/12. Very easy mainly because I can recognise the wrong American spellings!

question 6, 8, 9, 11 and 12 all incorrect spellings - should be courgette, chequered, fantasise, immunise and millilitres.

Christopher Skinner, Yes, those are the accepted British spellings, however those exact variants were not available options. Only the American variants were correct.

Keith Williams, The U.S. does not have an official language, but some states designate English as their official language. Scholars acknowledge variations in spelling as acceptable, whether they are British or American. In no case was a correct British variant offered alongside the American spelling. "Chequared", "mililitres", "fantasighs", and "imunise" are incorrect anywhere in the world.

Andrew McFee, Scholars acknowledge variations in spelling as acceptable, whether they are British or American. In no case was a correct British variant offered alongside the American spelling. "Chequared", "mililitres", "fantasighs", and "imunise" are incorrect anywhere in the world.

mikeyparry, Yes, those are the accepted British spellings, however, they were not the spellings offered. "Fantasighs" and "imunise" are not correct anywhere in the world.

Paul Greenslade, The correct option was "checkered", the American spelling. The other option was "chequared" and is wrong anywhere in the world. Only the American version, "checkered", was acceptable. I recognize British spelling without making a big deal of it. Why can't you do the same?

11/12 I read 'mililitres' as 'millilitres' so chose it as that's how we spell it in Australia. I got some of the others right only because the options of what would have been almost correct in Australia were themselves misspelled eg immunise, chequered. Perhaps future spelling quizzes could be categorised as "American."

And chequered is correct outside the USA.

12 / 12. However, it is fantasise and immunise on this side of the Atlantic!

Shelley Durocher, Sorry, second option.

Iancompat, Surely they can, and did. It was the only correct answer listed. If you look more carefully, you'll see that the first option misspelled the "mili-" part of the word, which should be "milli-" The only correct option of the 2 given was the U.S. spelling, which does not make it wrong, just different.

Denise Bruce, But the one ending in "-tres" was spelled wrong, with only one "l" in "mili". That's wrong everywhere. The only correct option of the 2 choices was the U.S. spelling, which does not make it wrong, just different.