Rules and exceptions of English spelling

Below are the 80 basic English spelling rules which have exceptions, with examples of the 150 main and 78 less common ways in which they get broken:

Cat - plait meringue
plate - wait weight straight great vein reign tabledahlia champagne fete
play - they weigh ballet cafe matinee
air - care bear aerial their there questionnaire
car – are, heart + (Southern Engl. bath)
sauce - caught bought always tall crawl
saw - (UK also: or, four, more)
C/at/ot/ut - character, kangaroo, queue
crab/ clap - chrome
lilac - stomach, anorakneck - cheque
Chat - picture
clutch - much

Dad - blonde

End - head any said Wednesday friend leisure leopard bury
her - turn bird learn word journey
Eel - eat even ceiling field police people me key ski debris quay
jolly - trolley movie corgi

Fish - photo stuff rough
Garden - ghastly guard
House – who

Ink - mystery pretty sieve women busy build
bite - might style mild kind eider height climb island indict sign
my - high pie rye buy I eye

Jelly, jig – gentle, ginger
fidget - digit

Kite/ kept - chemistry
seek - unique
risk - disc mosque

Lips - llama
Mum - dumb autumn
Nose - knot gone gnome mnemonic

On - cough sausage
want – wont
quarrel - quod
mole - bowl roll soul old mould boast most goes mauve
toe - go dough sew cocoa pharaoh oh depot

Oil - oyster
toy - buoy

food - rude shrewd move group fruit truth tomb manoeuvre
blue do shoe through
good - would put woman courier

Order – board court
wart, quart – worn quorn
more - soar door four war swore abhor

Out - town
now - plough

Quick - acquire choir
Rug - rhubarb write

Sun - centre scene
face - case
fancy - fantasy

Shop - chute sure moustache liquorice
ignition - mission pension suspicion fashion
ambitious - delicious luscious
facial - spatial

Tap, pet - pterodactyl two debt
delicate - democrat

Up - front some couple blood
cute - you newt neutral suit beauty Tuesday nuclear
cue - few view menu

have - spiv
river - chivvy

Window - which
fix - accept except exhibit
Yak - use

Zip - xylophone
rose - froze

measure - azure

Endings and prefixes:
loveable - credible
vertical - novel anvil petrol
ordinary - machinery inventory century carpentry
fasten - abandon truncheon orphan goblin certain
absence - balance
absent - pleasant
father - author armour nectar centre injure quota
decide - divide
indulge - endure

Consonant doubling:
merry – very - serrated

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