deuce
/dus/noun
deuce is spelled D-E-U-C-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,168th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, deuce means “A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of deuce is deuces.
How many letters and syllables are in deuce?
| Letters | 5: D-E-U-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 31,168th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is deuce?
Deuce appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,168th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce deuce?
- /djuːs/
- /d͡ʒuːs/
- US /dus/
As a noun (“The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger”): /djuːs/, /duːs/.
Deuce has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-deuce.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with deuce?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as deuce from its last stressed vowel (/us/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: educe.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of deuce
- deuces plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does deuce mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
- 2
A side of a die with two spots.
- 3
A cast of dice totalling two.
- 4
CanadaUSslangA bowel movement (the event or the result).
- 5
CanadaslangA two-year prison sentence.
- 6
A hand gesture consisting of a raised index and middle finger, a peace sign.
- 7
A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
- 8
A curveball.
- 9
The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.
- 10
Synonym of devil (“something awkward or difficult”).
We had a deuce of a time getting here.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Deuce in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | deux , égalité , diable |
| German | Daus , Einstand , Deibel, Teufel , Zwei |
| Portuguese | dois (2,4), duque , iguais , diabos, inferno , dois |
| Spanish | dos , iguales |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does deuce come from?
From Middle English dewes (“two”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French deus, from Latin duo. The word was used by Ford Motor Co. in 1932 to describe a two-seater car model.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).