dicevsdickConfusable pair

Quick tell: dice is a noun, dick is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“dice” is a noun and “dick” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#43,101
“dice” frequency rank
#3,181
“dick” frequency rank
46282
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature dice dick
Definition der Würfel (zum Beispiel der Käsewürfel) vom Umfang her bedeutend, besonders auch von großem Umfang

Letter map: dice vs dick

Shared letters muted; letters that set dice and dick apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch
dice
4 ch
dick

Part-of-speech tell for dice / dick

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: dice is anoun and dickanadjective. On the page they differ by a single letter - e in “dice” becomes k in “dick”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46282, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

dice is recorded at frequency rank #43,101, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. dick is at rank #3,181, tagged as anadj, pronounced [dɪk].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 46282, this pair ranks #1,324,484 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of dice vs dick

Shared letters: cdi. Private to "dice": e. Private to "dick": k.

"dice" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "dick" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • dicedcie · ddice · dicce · diec · idce
  • dickdcik · ddick · dicck · dickk · dikc · idck

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "dice" and "dick" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "dice" is a noun and "dick" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "dice" or "dick" show up more?
"dick" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,181 in our German list, against #43,101 for "dice". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "dice" and "dick". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "dice" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "dick" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,324,484 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "dice" and "dick" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dice vs puzzles". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,324,484 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list