thrice

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The English entry for thrice is 6 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /θɹaɪs/. Corpus data places it at rank #24,338 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Three times.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for thrice, with forms such as "htrice", "thhrice", and "thirce". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "twice", "trick", "trace", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: PIE word *tréyes From Middle English thrice, thries (“three times, thrice; a third time; repeated three times”), from earlier thrī, thrīe (“three times, thrice; a third time”) (from Old English þriwa, þreowa) + -es (suffix forming adverbs of time, place, a… 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 thrice, spelled T-H-R-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.