How to spell prescribe

Prescribe is spelled P-R-E-S-C-R-I-B-E.

hear itpre·scribe/prɪ'skraɪb/verbHidden vowels

What it means: To officially order a medicine or treatment.

In a sentence: The doctor will prescribe some medicine to help you feel better.

Same family: prescription, prescriptive, describe, inscribe, subscribe. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Prescribe comes from Latin *praescribere*, meaning “to write beforehand” (*prae* = before, *scribere* = to write). The same root appears in words like describe, subscribe, and manuscript, all linked to the idea of writing.

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