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juice

UK /d͡ʒuːs/noun, verb, adjective

juice is spelled J-U-I-C-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 23 times per million words in written English, the 3,875th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, juice means “A liquid made from plant, especially fruit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of juice is juices.

How many letters and syllables are in juice?

Letters5: J-U-I-C-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing23 times per million words; the 3,875th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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 juice?

Juice appears 23 times per million words in written English, the 3,875th 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 juice?

  • UK /d͡ʒuːs/
  • British /d͡ʒʉws/
  • /d͡ʒɪʊ̯s/

Juice 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-juice.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with juice?

3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as juice from its last stressed vowel (/us/, British pronunciation):

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 juice

  • juices plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • juicing participle, present
  • juiced participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does juice mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A liquid made from plant, especially fruit.

    Squeeze the orange and some juice will come out.

  2. 2

    A beverage made of juice.

    I’d like two orange juices please.

  3. 3

    ScotlandA soft drink.

  4. 4

    slangLiquor.

  5. 5

    informalThe liquid that is used to submerge a substance kept in a container

  6. 6

    slangThe leftover liquid of some wet or damp substance.

  7. 7

    Bodily secretion, especially that secreted by the glands of the stomach and intestines.

  8. 8

    slangVitality; strength.

verb

  1. 1

    To extract the juice from something.

  2. 2

    To energize or stimulate something.

  3. 3

    slangTo take a performance-enhancing drug.

  4. 4

    slangTo have sexual intercourse with.

adjective

  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of Jew's (used in certain set phrases like juice harp)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Juice in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchjus (liquid from a plant), suc (liquid resembling juice), juter (to remove the juice from something)
GermanSaft (liquid from a plant), entsaften (to remove the juice from something), saften (to energize)
Portuguesesumo, suco (liquid from a plant), extrair (to remove the juice from something), energizar, estimular (to energize), vitalidade (slang: electricity)
Spanishzumo, jugo, agrio, acedo (liquid from a plant)

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 juice come from?

From Middle English jus, juis, from Old French jus, jous, from Latin jūs (“broth, soup, sauce”), from Proto-Indo-European *yéwHs, from *yewH- (“to mix (of meal preparation)”). Doublet of jus and ukha. In this sense, mostly displaced native Middle English sew (“juice”), from Old English sēaw (“juice, sap”) (> English sew (“juice, broth, gravy”)). Sense of "soft drink" most likely an ellipsis of fizzy juice, another similarly common term in Scotland.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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