Question

Find the correctly spelt words
A) Klaptomania
B) Klepptomania
C) Kleptemania
D) Kleptomania

Answer 1

Hint: We have to identify the correctly spelled word from the given words. Spelling is very important in written communication. Wrong spellings will make the sentences unclear and give an uninformed impression about us to the reader.

Complete answer:
The spelling and pronunciation of a word may differ. For e.g. the spelling of the past form of read is ‘read’ but it is pronounced as ‘red’. Therefore it is not necessary that the spelling will help us to pronounce the word correctly or vice versa.

The correct answer is Kleptomania. Kleptomania is basically a habit in which a person has an irresistible urge to steal. The person steals even those things which are irrelevant to him/her, which he/she does not even need. It is considered to be a form of mental illness. The person having this habit is referred to as Kleptomaniac.

It’s pronunciation is as follows- klep·tuh·may·nee·ak. In this we can see that ‘to’ in the spelling is pronounced as ‘tuh’ and ‘ma’ as ‘may’. Therefore, we can conclude that it's not necessary to find any similarity between spelling and pronunciation.

Therefore the correct answer is option ‘D’.

Note: The pronunciation of a word is related to an understanding of vowels,consonants, syllables, syllable stress etc. The spellings on the other hand are concerned with suffixes, prefixes, singular, plural and verb form etc.