practiqué

Practiqué is generally not considered a standard French spelling. The correct past participle of the verb pratiquer (to practice) is pratiqué. In standard usage, practitioners and learners will encounter pratiqué rather than practicqué. Dictionaries do not list practicqué as a valid form in contemporary French, so its appearance is usually the result of a spelling error or a typographical mistake.

In French grammar, the past participle pratiqué is used with the auxiliary avoir to form the passé composé: j'ai pratiqué, tu as pratiqué, il a pratiqué. It can also function adjectivally to describe something that has been practiced or is well trained, as in une technique pratiquée (a practiced technique) or un individu pratiqué dans son domaine (a well-practiced individual). The participle agrees in gender and number when it modifies a noun that is not preceded by the auxiliary verb for agreement, as with most adjectives.

Etymologically, pratiquer comes from French, itself derived from Latin practicare, from Greek praktikos, meaning “fit for action” or “practical.” The past participle pratiqué follows standard French morphology.

Notes and variations: If you encounter practicqué or practicqué in text, it is almost certainly a misspelling of pratiqué. In formal writing, it is best to use pratiqué and reserve any discussion of spelling variants for an etymology or usage note. Practiqué does not have a separate entry as a distinct word in mainstream French dictionaries; its use appears only as a mistaken form or in nonstandard contexts.