Which to use
“practising” is an adjective and “praising” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #17,213
- “practising” frequency rank
- #13,040
- “praising” frequency rank
- 30253
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | practising | praising |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Engaged in the practice of some activity or profession. | present participle and gerund of praise |
Letter map: practising vs praising
Shared letters muted; letters that set practising and praising apart highlighted. Shared run: 8.
Role in the sentence - practising and praising
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: practising is anadjective and praisingaverb. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30253, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
practising is recorded at frequency rank #17,213, classified as anadj. praising is at rank #13,040, tagged as averb, pronounced /ˈpɹeɪzɪŋ/.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 30253, this pair ranks #356,143 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of practising vs praising
Shared letters: aginprs. Private to "practising": ct. Private to "praising": -.
"practising" · 10 letters · shape CCVCCVCVCC · "praising" · 8 letters · shape CCVVCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- practising ← parctising · ppractising · pracctising · pracitsing · practiisng · practisign · practisingg · practisinng
- praising ← parising · ppraising · praiisng · praisign · praisingg · praisinng · praisnig · praissing
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
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- Full dictionary entry for "practising" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "praising" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #356,143 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "practising" and "praising" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "praising vs prancing". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #356,143 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.