practiced
/ˈpɹæktɪst/
"practiced" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“practiced” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,382. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,382
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - skillful, proficient, knowledgeable or expert as a result of practice
Corpus desk
Index EN-practiced · practiced · English
practiced · rank #9,382 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,382
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH poured
Nearest frequency peer: poured (-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 “practiced”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- persuade
persuade
90,622 corpus weight
- pier
pier
90,621 corpus weight
- poured
poured
90,620 corpus weight
- practiced
practiced
90,619 corpus weight
- predecessor
predecessor
90,618 corpus weight
- premise
premise
90,617 corpus weight
What this shows “practiced” 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 | practiced |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈpɹæktɪst/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “practiced”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around practiced (IPA /ˈpɹæktɪst/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,382 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "skillful, proficient, knowledgeable or expert as a result of practice".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for practiced, with forms such as "parcticed", "ppracticed", and "praccticed". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "practise", "practices", "practice", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is practiced, spelled P-R-A-C-T-I-C-E-D.
Definition
- 1skillful, proficient, knowledgeable or expert as a result of practice
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how practiced appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[T]he driver was delayed there by a skimpy little woman with a thin piping voice practised in the art of defeating escape from it by a ceaseless stream of gabble.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- parcticed
- ppracticed
- praccticed
- pracitced
- practcied
- practicced
- practicde
- practicedd
- practiecd
- practticed
- pratciced
- prcaticed
- prracticed
- rpacticed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of practiced - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "practiced", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).