practice
/ˈpɹæktɪs/
"practice" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“practice” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #931. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #931
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.
Corpus desk
Index EN-practice · practice · English
practice · rank #931 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #931
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH okay
Nearest frequency peer: okay (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “practice”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- internet
internet
99,073 corpus weight
- listen
listen
99,072 corpus weight
- okay
okay
99,071 corpus weight
- practice
practice
99,070 corpus weight
- rules
rules
99,069 corpus weight
- sea
sea
99,068 corpus weight
What this shows “practice” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “practice”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around practice (IPA /ˈpɹæktɪs/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #931 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 10 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for practice, with forms such as "parctice", "ppractice", and "pracctice". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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… The correct English form is practice, spelled P-R-A-C-T-I-C-E.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how practice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He will need lots of practice with the lines before he performs them.
Being on a team is hard: you're always having to go to practice while everyone else is taking it easy.
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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- parctice
- ppractice
- pracctice
- pracitce
- practcie
- practicce
- practiec
- practtice
- pratcice
- prcatice
- prractice
- rpactice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of practice - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).