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How to spell notice

hear itno·tice/'noʊtɪs/verbRules and real life

What it means: To become aware of something or someone.

In a sentence: Did you notice the butterfly on the flower?

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as notise or notic.

Same family: noticed, noticing, noticeable, notification, notify. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Notice” comes from French "notice" and Latin "notitia," meaning "a being known" or "knowledge." It originally meant "information" or "a written announcement" before also coming to mean "to observe" or "to pay attention to."

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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