advice
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "advice", 6-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "advice" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "advice" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
advice is aEnglishnoun. It means: An opinion offered to guide behavior in an effort to be helpful. Pronounced /ədˈvaɪs/. It ranks #1,382 in English word frequency. Often confused with Alice and Advil.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | advice |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ədˈvaɪs/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for advice is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ədˈvaɪs/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,382 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for advice, with forms such as "addvice", "adivce", and "advcie". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Alice", "Advil", "advise", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Latin ad Old French a Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der. Proto-Italic *widēō Latin videō Latin vīsus Old French vis Old French avisbor. Middle English avys English advice From Middle English avys, from O… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is advice, spelled A-D-V-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1An opinion offered to guide behavior in an effort to be helpful.
- 2Deliberate consideration; knowledge.
- 3Information or news given; intelligence
- 4In language about financial transactions executed by formal documents, an advisory document.
- 5In commercial language, information communicated by letter; used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange
- 6A communication providing information, such as how an uncertain area of law might apply to possible future actions
- 7Counseling to perform a specific legal act.
- 8Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.
- 9In aspect-oriented programming, the code whose execution is triggered when a join point is reached.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Latin ad Old French a Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der. Proto-Italic *widēō Latin videō Latin vīsus Old French vis Old French avisbor. Middle English avys English advice From Middle English avys, from Old French avis, rebracketed from the phrase ce m'est a vis (“I think”, “it seems to me”, literally “it is to my view”), where vis is from Latin vīsus (“vision, sight”). The unhistoric -d- was introduced during the 15th century due to influence from advise and ad-, see advance. Doublet of aviso. See vision, and compare avise, advise. Mostly displaced native Old English rǣd (see modern rede).
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Also misspelled as: addvice,adivce,advcie,advicce,adviec,advvice,avdice,davice
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Misspelling Variants of "advice"
Frequency rank: #1,382 in English
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