Spelling
Presciption or prescription?
Prescription is the right spelling. Presciption is a common misspelling of it.
PRESCIPTION leaves out the R after SC.
Why people write PRESCIPTION
Some letters are barely said, or not said at all, in everyday speech (the N in government, the P in pumpkin), so they drop out when the word is written as it sounds.
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), PRESCIPTION appears 7 times for every 1,000 PRESCRIPTION, about once for every 143 correct uses.
Is PRESCIPTION a word?
No. PRESCIPTION 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"
More words with the same mistake
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