practice
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "practice", 8-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 "practice" 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 "practice" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
practice is aEnglishnoun. It means: Repetition of an activity to improve a skill. Pronounced /ˈpɹæktɪs/. It ranks #931 in English word frequency. Often confused with practise and prentice.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | practice |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɹæktɪs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for practice is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈpɹæktɪs/. Corpus data places it at rank #931 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for practice, with forms such as "parctice", "ppractice", and "pracctice". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "practise", "prentice", "practices", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: The noun is from Middle English practice, practique, practyse, from the verb; also compare Medieval Latin prāctica. The verb is from Middle English practice, practise, practize, practyse, from Middle French pratiser, practiser, alteration of practiquer, fro… 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 practice, spelled P-R-A-C-T-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.
- 2An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition.
- 3The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
- 4A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice.
- 5The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members.
- 6A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine.
- 7Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.
- 8The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.
- 9Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
- 10An easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
Etymology
The noun is from Middle English practice, practique, practyse, from the verb; also compare Medieval Latin prāctica. The verb is from Middle English practice, practise, practize, practyse, from Middle French pratiser, practiser, alteration of practiquer, from Medieval Latin prācticāre, from Late Latin prācticus, from Ancient Greek πρακτικός (praktikós). The spelling practice is attested once in Middle English for both the noun and the verb. The noun began to be assimilated in spelling to nouns in -ice; practise (noun) is now obsolete.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: parctice,ppractice,pracctice,pracitce,practcie,practicce,practiec,practtice,pratcice,prcatice,prractice,rpactice
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for practice
Misspelling Variants of "practice"
Frequency rank: #931 in English
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