dice
/daɪs/noun, verb
dice is spelled D-I-C-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 5.8 times per million words in written English, the 10,196th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dice means “Gaming with one or more dice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of dice is dices.
How many letters and syllables are in dice?
| Letters | 4: D-I-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.8 times per million words; the 10,196th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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 dice?
Dice appears 5.8 times per million words in written English, the 10,196th 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 dice?
- /daɪs/
Dice 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-dice.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with dice?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as dice.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: iced, cedi.
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 dice
- dices plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- dicing participle, present
- diced participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dice mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Gaming with one or more dice.
- 2
A die.
- 3
That which has been diced.
Cut onions, carrots and celery into medium dice.
- 4
plural of die
verb
- 1
To play dice.
- 2
To cut into small cubes.
- 3
To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Dice in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to cut into small cubes:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | couper en dés |
| German | würfeln, in Würfel schneiden |
| Portuguese | cortar em cubinhos, picar |
| Spanish | cortar en cubos |
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 dice come from?
From Middle English dys, plural of dy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).