dicevsdickemTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#43,101
“dice” frequency rank
#39,285
“dickem” frequency rank
82386
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature dice dickem
Definition der Würfel (zum Beispiel der Käsewürfel) Dativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs dick

Letter map: dice vs dickem

Shared letters muted; letters that set dice and dickem apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. dice runs 4 letters (CVCV) against dickem's 6 (CVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
dice
6 ch
dickem

Role in the sentence - dice and dickem

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: dice is anoun and dickemanadjective. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 82386, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

dice is recorded at frequency rank #43,101, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. dickem is at rank #39,285, tagged as anadj, pronounced [ˈdɪkəm].

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 82386, this pair ranks #158,254 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of dice vs dickem

Shared letters: cdei. Private to "dice": -. Private to "dickem": km.

"dice" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "dickem" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • dice ← dcie · ddice · dicce · diec · idce
  • dickem ← dcikem · ddickem · dicckem · dicekm · dickemm · dickkem · dickme · dikcem

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "dice" and "dickem" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "dice" is a noun and "dickem" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "dice" or "dickem"?
"dickem" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #39,285 in our German list, against #43,101 for "dice". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "dice" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "dickem" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #158,254 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "dice" and "dickem" 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 #158,254 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