liquorice
/ˈlɪ.k(ə).ɹɪʃ/noun
liquorice is a noun meaning “UK, Ireland, India, and South Africa standard spelling of licorice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-I-Q-U-O-R-I-C-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of liquorice is liquorices.
What does liquorice mean?
noun
- 1
UK, Ireland, India, and South Africa standard spelling of licorice.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce liquorice?
- UK /ˈlɪ.k(ə).ɹɪʃ/
Liquorice has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-licorice.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-liquorice.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of liquorice
- liquorices plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is liquorice?
Liquorice appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 54,192nd 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).
Where does liquorice come from?
From licorice by association with liquor.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).