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How to spell advise

hear itad·vise/æd'vaɪz/verbSchwa and roots

What it means: To give helpful suggestions or guidance.

In a sentence: My teacher will advise me on how to solve the puzzle.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as advice or advize.

Sounds like, but is not: advice. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: advice, adviser, advisor, advisable, advisory. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Advise” comes from Old French “aviser,” meaning “to consider or look at,” and ultimately from the Latin root “vis,” meaning “to see.” This is why “advise” and “advice” are closely related in spelling and meaning, even though they sound different.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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