ricey
/ˈɹaɪsi/adjective
ricey is an adjective meaning “Containing rice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-I-C-E-Y, and it appears about once in every 93 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does ricey mean?
adjective
- 1
Containing rice.
- 2
Resembling or characteristic of rice.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce ricey?
- /ˈɹaɪsi/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ricey
- more ricey comparative
- most ricey superlative
- ricy
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ricey?
Ricey appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd 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 ricey come from?
From rice + -y.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).