# advice

> English word · Noun · IPA /ədˈvaɪs/ · frequency rank #1,382

## Definitions
1. An opinion offered to guide behavior in an effort to be helpful.
2. Deliberate consideration; knowledge.
3. Information or news given; intelligence
4. In language about financial transactions executed by formal documents, an advisory document.
5. In commercial language, information communicated by letter; used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange
6. A communication providing information, such as how an uncertain area of law might apply to possible future actions
7. Counseling to perform a specific legal act.
8. Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.
9. In 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).

## Easily confused with
- **Alice** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/advice-vs-alice)
- **Advil** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/advice-vs-advil)
- **advise** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/advice-vs-advise)
- **advised** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/advice-vs-advised)
- **adviser** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/advice-vs-adviser)
- **advices** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/advice-vs-advices)
- **Addie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/addie-vs-advice)
- **admire** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/admire-vs-advice)
- **addict** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/addict-vs-advice)
- **advance** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/advance-vs-advice)

## Common misspellings (8)
`addvice`, `adivce`, `advcie`, `advicce`, `adviec`, `advvice`, `avdice`, `davice`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/advice