slice
/slaɪs/noun, verb, adjective
slice is spelled S-L-I-C-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,121st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, slice means “That which is thin and broad” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of slice is slices.
How many letters and syllables are in slice?
| Letters | 5: S-L-I-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 10 times per million words; the 7,121st 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 slice?
Slice appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,121st 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 slice?
- /slaɪs/
Slice 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-slice.ogg, En-au-slice.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Back_ache-slice.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with slice?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as slice.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: sicle.
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 slice
- slices plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- slicing participle, present
- sliced participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does slice mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
That which is thin and broad.
- 2
A thin, broad piece cut off.
a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread
- 3
colloquialAn amount of anything.
- 4
A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
- 5
UKA snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.
- 6
A broad, thin piece of plaster.
- 7
A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
- 8
A salver, platter, or tray.
verb
- 1
To cut into slices.
Slice the cheese thinly.
- 2
To cut with an edge using a drawing motion.
The knife left sliced his arm.
- 3
To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
- 4
To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
- 5
To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
- 6
To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
- 7
To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
- 8
To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
adjective
- 1
Having the properties of a slice knot.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Slice in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | tranche, tronçon , trancher, couper en tranches, émincer |
| German | Scheibe , schneiden, aufschneiden, hobeln, (histolog.) Schnitte anfertigen , Slice |
| Portuguese | fatia , fatiar |
| Spanish | rebanada, lonja, loncha, rodaja, luquete , sección |
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 slice come from?
From Middle English sclise, sklise, from Old French esclice, esclis (“a piece split off”), deverbal of esclicer, esclicier (“to splinter, split up”), from Frankish *slitjan (“to split up”), from Proto-Germanic *slitjaną, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to split, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyd- (“to rend, injure, crumble”). Akin to Old High German sliz, gisliz (“a tear, rip”), Old High German slīȥan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to split up”), modern French éclisse. More at slite, slit.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).