Spelling
Perscription or prescription?
Prescription is the right spelling. Perscription is a common misspelling of it.
PERSCRIPTION swaps R and E.
Why people write PERSCRIPTION
Two letters next to each other, often a vowel pair, are easy to swap when writing fast, and the result can still look right.
PRE-scription: you get it before (pre) the medicine.
How often PRESCRIPTION is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), PERSCRIPTION appears 34 times for every 1,000 PRESCRIPTION, about once for every 29 correct uses.
Is PERSCRIPTION a word?
No. PERSCRIPTION is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. PRESCRIPTION is in all three and scores 18 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What prescription means
noun: Directions prescribed beforehand.
For example: "I tried to follow her prescription for success"
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