# splice

> English word · Noun · IPA /splaɪs/ · frequency rank #34,295

## Definitions
1. A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
2. The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
3. That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.
4. Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.
5. The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together exons.

## Etymology
Circa 1525, borrowed from Middle Dutch splissen (Modern Dutch splitsen); akin to Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”), German spleißen (“to split, splice”), Spliss (“split ends, hair breakage”), French épisser (also from Dutch). The Dutch word originally referred only to the fraying of the ropes' ends but was then also used for the entire process of fraying and retying; hence the peculiar semantic development from “split” to “join”. The same development occurred in German.

## Easily confused with
- **split** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/splice-vs-split)
- **spruce** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/splice-vs-spruce)
- **sprite** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/splice-vs-sprite)
- **splint** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/splice-vs-splint)
- **space** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/space-vs-splice)
- **slide** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slide-vs-splice)
- **spite** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/spite-vs-splice)
- **slice** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slice-vs-splice)
- **spike** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/spike-vs-splice)
- **spice** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/spice-vs-splice)
- **spine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/spine-vs-splice)
- **spicy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/spicy-vs-splice)
- **slick** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slick-vs-splice)
- **slime** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slime-vs-splice)
- **spire** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/spire-vs-splice)
- **sliced** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sliced-vs-splice)
- **spices** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/spices-vs-splice)
- **Spence** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/spence-vs-splice)
- **saline** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/saline-vs-splice)
- **solace** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/solace-vs-splice)

## Common misspellings (9)
`pslice`, `slpice`, `spilce`, `splcie`, `splicce`, `spliec`, `spllice`, `spplice`, `ssplice`

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