Spelling
Perscriptions or prescriptions?
Prescriptions is the right spelling. Perscriptions is a common misspelling of it.
PERSCRIPTIONS swaps R and E.
Why people write PERSCRIPTIONS
Two letters next to each other, often a vowel pair, are easy to swap when writing fast, and the result can still look right.
Cover the word and write it in syllables; check each syllable against the dictionary spelling.
How often PRESCRIPTIONS is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), PERSCRIPTIONS appears 41 times for every 1,000 PRESCRIPTIONS, about once for every 24 correct uses.
Is PERSCRIPTIONS a word?
No. PERSCRIPTIONS is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. PRESCRIPTIONS is in all three and scores 19 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What prescriptions means
noun: Directions prescribed beforehand.
For example: "I tried to follow her prescription for success"
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