advice
/ədˈvaɪs/noun
advice is spelled A-D-V-I-C-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 76 times per million words in written English, the 1,394th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “advice vs advise” about 27,100 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, advice means “An opinion offered to guide behavior in an effort to be helpful” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of advice is advices.
How many letters and syllables are in advice?
| Letters | 6: A-D-V-I-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 76 times per million words; the 1,394th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is advice?
Advice appears 76 times per million words in written English, the 1,394th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce advice?
- UK /ədˈvaɪs/
- US /ədˈvaɪs/
Advice has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-advice.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with advice
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with advice?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as advice from its last stressed vowel (/aɪs/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of advice
- advices plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does advice mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An opinion offered to guide behavior in an effort to be helpful.
She was offered various pieces of advice on what to do.
- 2
obsoleteDeliberate consideration; knowledge.
- 3
archaicInformation or news given; intelligence.
late advices from France
- 4
In language about financial transactions executed by formal documents, an advisory document.
An advice of an incoming settlement payment order may be given to an off-line receiving bank.
- 5
In commercial language, information communicated by letter; used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange.
a letter of advice
- 6
A communication providing information, such as how an uncertain area of law might apply to possible future actions.
An advice issued by a Monitoring Committee could be applicable in a Dutch court
- 7
Counseling to perform a specific legal act.
- 8
Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Advice in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | conseil |
| German | Rat, Ratschlag |
| Portuguese | conselho |
| Spanish | consejo, asesoramiento , aviso |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does advice come from?
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.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).