How to spell practice

Practice is spelled P-R-A-C-T-I-C-E. The noun ends -ICE everywhere, like notice and justice: prac-tice.

hear itprac·tice/'præktɪs/verbLong vowels

What it means: To do something repeatedly to improve.

In a sentence: I need to practice my piano every day.

Also spelled: practise (accepted as correct).

Same family: practise, practiced, practicing, practical, practitioner. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Practice comes from Medieval Latin 'practica' and Greek 'praktikos', meaning ‘concerned with action’—the same root that gives us 'practical' and 'practitioner'. In British English, 'practice' is usually the noun and 'practise' the verb, but in American English 'practice' is used for both.

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