English homophones
practice/practise
"practice" is a noun; "practise" is a verb - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "practice" arrives as a noun, while "practise" is a verb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "practi" then splits - "practice" (8 letters) vs "practise" (8).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across practice, practise: aceiprt. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
practice
8 letters · 3 vowels · shape CCVCCVCV
Inventory aceiprt · no private letters vs siblings
practise
8 letters · 3 vowels · shape CCVCCVCV
Inventory aceiprst · private s
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "practice" when you mean: Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.
- Write "practise" when you mean: To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (practice, practise). Here's where to go from here.
- "practice" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #931 in English). Full entry
- Among English homophone groups, a cluster of 2 spellings ranks #133 by size (1,007 groups in this vintage). Corpus statistics
- Explore a nearby 2-spelling cluster: people's · peoples. Nearby cluster
- Grammar often disambiguates this cluster, match the meaning to the part of speech before picking a spelling. Pick by meaning
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