practise
/ˈpɹæktɪs/
"practise" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“practise” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,615. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,615
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
Corpus desk
Index EN-practise · practise · English
practise · rank #14,615 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,615
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH platoon
Nearest frequency peer: platoon (-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 “practise”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- pep
pep
85,389 corpus weight
- piracy
piracy
85,388 corpus weight
- platoon
platoon
85,387 corpus weight
- practise
practise
85,386 corpus weight
- presses
presses
85,385 corpus weight
- rave
rave
85,384 corpus weight
What this shows “practise” 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 | practise |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈpɹæktɪs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,615 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “practise”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around practise (IPA /ˈpɹæktɪs/), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,615 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for practise, with forms such as "parctise", "ppractise", and "pracctise". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "praise", "precise", "proactive", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English practizen, a variant of practisen, from Middle French pratiser, practiser, from Medieval Latin practizo, from Late Latin practico (“to do, perform, execute, propose, practise, exercise, be conversant with, contrive, conspire, etc.”), fro… The correct English form is practise, spelled P-R-A-C-T-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
- 2To repeat an activity in this way.
- 3To perform or observe in an habitual fashion.
- 4To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
- 5To conspire.
- 6To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
- 7To make use of; to employ.
- 8To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how practise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
You should practise playing piano every day.
If you want to speak French well, you need to practise.
Etymology
From Middle English practizen, a variant of practisen, from Middle French pratiser, practiser, from Medieval Latin practizo, from Late Latin practico (“to do, perform, execute, propose, practise, exercise, be conversant with, contrive, conspire, etc.”), from prāctica (“practical affairs", "business”), from Ancient Greek πρᾱκτική (prāktikḗ), from πρᾱκτικός (prāktikós, “practical”), from πρᾱ́σσειν (prā́ssein, “to do”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per(h₂)- (“to go over, cross”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- parctise
- ppractise
- pracctise
- pracitse
- practies
- practisse
- practsie
- practtise
- pratcise
- prcatise
- prractise
- rpactise
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of practise - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).