practise

Other forms of practise

past tense

practised·

present participle

practising·

third person

practises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about practise

What does practise mean?

practise means "engage in a rehearsal (of)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in practise?

practise has 2 syllables: prac-tise. The stress falls on "prac". In IPA it is /ˈpɹæktɪs/.

What is another word for practise?

Close synonyms include rehearse, practice, practice, exercise, do. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is practise a common word?

practise is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.