# didactic

> English word · Adjective · IPA /daɪˈdæk.tɪk/ · frequency rank #39,778

## Definitions
1. Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
2. Excessively moralizing.
3. Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

## Etymology
From French didactique, from Ancient Greek διδακτικός (didaktikós, “skilled in teaching”), from διδακτός (didaktós, “taught, learnt”), from διδάσκω (didáskō, “I teach, educate”). By surface analysis, didact + -ic.

## Common misspellings (12)
`ddiactic`, `ddidactic`, `diadctic`, `didacctic`, `didacitc`, `didactci`, `didacticc`, `didacttic`, `didatcic`, `didcatic`, `diddactic`, `iddactic`

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