SSC CGL Spelling Correction Questions 2026 (Most Repeated PYQ Words, Correctly & Incorrectly Spelt) — Free Chapter Wise Practice Test

Spelling Correction Tests — Pick a Level and Start

Tap a level to see every test in it. Level 1 is set at real SSC CGL difficulty — start there. Level 2 is pitched above the exam, with harder words and wrong options that differ from the right one by a single letter.

Every spelling question asks one thing: is this word spelt exactly right? SSC asks it in several ways — pick the one correct spelling, pick the one wrong spelling, spell a word from its meaning, fill a blank, find the misspelt word in a sentence, or find the only sentence with no spelling error. The skill is the same in all of them: knowing the exact letters of the word, not just how it sounds.

Marks are lost in three places. The first is spelling by sound — English words are often not written the way they are spoken, so “nusiance” and “restraunt” feel right. The second is the doubled letter — accommodation has two c’s and two m’s, but necessary has one c and two s’s. The third is the real-word trap: teaming is a real word, but the market was teeming with buyers.

How Many Spelling Questions Are Asked in SSC CGL?

Spelling is a fixed part of the English section — usually one or two questions in every SSC CGL Tier I shift, with similar questions in CHSL and the Tier II English paper. In the 2025 CGL papers most shifts had two, often one “identify the misspelt word” and one “correct spelling of a word meaning…”. The formats that come up are listed below, most common first.

SSC reuses its spelling words across years and exams, so words from earlier papers are the best place to start — and 40% of every test here is built on them.

What You Will Practice in the Spelling Correction Chapter

Level 1 — real exam words

• Words SSC CGL and CHSL ask every year, mixed with new words at the same level
• The classic mistakes: dropped or doubled letters, ie/ei, -ance/-ence, -able/-ible, silent letters
• All seven formats, so no question style catches you by surprise

Level 2 — above the exam

• Long and unusual words, including the technical words SSC used in 2025
• Wrong options that differ by just one letter or one doubling
• Harder sentence questions, where every other word must be checked too

Spelling rules that settle most questions

A rule narrows the four options down; the exceptions are exactly the words SSC likes to ask.

The three mistakes that cost the most marks

• Spelling by sound. Nuisance is not “nusiance” and restaurant is not “restraunt” — picture the word, do not hear it.
• Missing a doubled or single letter. Accommodation and embarrass double two letters each, committee doubles three; necessary doubles only the s.
• Reading the wrong instruction. “Correctly spelt” and “INCORRECTLY spelt” look alike in a hurry — check which one is asked before you mark.

Solved Examples — SSC CGL Spelling Correction

How the Spelling Correction Tests Work

• 25 questions per test, with a full question palette — answered, skipped, marked for review, not visited.
• All seven SSC formats in every test — correctly spelt word, incorrectly spelt word, correct spelling of a word with a given meaning, fill in the blank, misspelt word in a sentence, underlined misspelt word, and the sentence with no spelling error.
• 40% PYQ words — 10 words in every test have been asked in SSC CGL or CHSL papers; the other 15 are new words at the same level, and no word repeats anywhere in the chapter.
• Optional 15-minute timer — with the clock to build exam speed, without it while you are still learning the spellings.
• Marking: +2 correct, −0.5 wrong, 0 unattempted — the same scheme as the real paper.
• Step-by-step solutions and a memory trick open after you submit, question by question — the meaning of the word, the spelling rule behind it, the word built letter by letter, why each wrong option fails, and the trap students fall into.
• In English, as in the exam — English Language questions are set in English in SSC CGL and CHSL.
• Free with a TrickySSC account — sign in once with Google or your mobile number, and every test is open to you.

How to Prepare Spelling Correction for SSC CGL

1. Read the instruction first. Correctly spelt or INCORRECTLY spelt? Half the wrong answers in this chapter come from answering the other question.
2. Compare the options letter by letter. The four spellings usually differ in one spot — find that spot, and decide only that part.
3. Break long words into parts. Ac-com-mo-da-tion, en-tre-pre-neur, sur-veil-lance: short parts are easier to check than the whole word.
4. Learn the rules and their exceptions. i before e, doubling before -ed and -ing, -able and -ible — and the exceptions SSC likes, such as seize, weird and noticeable.
5. Write the words, do not only read them. Spelling is a hand-and-eye memory; writing a tricky word three times fixes it far better than reading it ten times.
6. Revise daily, not weekly. Ten minutes a day on one test beats one long session, and then check yourself on a previous year paper.

Related SSC CGL English Chapters

Spelling sits inside the vocabulary block of the English paper — the same words return as Synonyms and Antonyms, and a misspelt word can also be the error in Spot the Error.

All SSC CGL Chapter Wise Tests

Every chapter below has its own free Level 1 and Level 2 tests with full solutions.

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