bice
/baɪs/
"bice" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bice” is uncommon English (frequency #89,156 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,156
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bice · bice · English
bice · rank #89,156 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,156
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bichon
Nearest frequency peer: bichon (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “bice”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Betelgeuse
Betelgeuse
10,849 corpus weight
- bice
bice
10,845 corpus weight
- bichon
bichon
10,844 corpus weight
- Bicol
Bicol
10,843 corpus weight
- Bideford
Bideford
10,842 corpus weight
- bigwig
bigwig
10,841 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bice” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bice |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /baɪs/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #89,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bice” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bice is uncommon English at frequency #89,156 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /baɪs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bice, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French bis, akin to Italian bigio (“light gray, tawny”). Doublet of beige. The correct English form is bice, spelled B-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt.
- 2A cobalt blue pigment.
Etymology
From French bis, akin to Italian bigio (“light gray, tawny”). Doublet of beige.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).