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Is rice a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word rice is a Scrabble US word. The word rice is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word rice is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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4-letter words (4 found)

CIRE,ERIC,ICER,RICE,

3-letter words (4 found)

ICE,IRE,REC,REI,

2-letter words (2 found)

ER,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 11 words from rice according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of rice

rice irce rcie crie icre cire riec irec reic eric ierc eirc rcei crei reci erci ceri ecri icer cier iecr eicr ceir ecir

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Definitions and meaning of rice

rice

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹaɪs/
  • Rhymes: -aɪs

Etymology 1

From Middle English rys, from Old French ris, from Old Italian riso, risi, from Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza), from an Eastern Iranian language related to Middle Persian blnc (*brinǰ), Northern Kurdish riz (beyond Euphrates) and Zazaki riz. Theorized to come to Iranian languages from Sanskrit व्रीहि (vrīhi).

Prior to Sanskrit, it is speculated to be possibly a borrowing from a Dravidian language (compare Proto-Dravidian *wariñci (“rice”)), or from Austroasiatic languages further east.

Alternatively Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza) is said to be from Hebrew אורז (órez), from South Arabian areez ultimately from Old Tamil 𑀅𑀭𑀺𑀘𑀺 (arici).

Noun

rice (countable and uncountable, plural rices)

  1. (uncountable) Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
  2. (countable) A specific variety of this plant.
  3. (uncountable) The seeds of this plant used as food.
  4. (uncountable, slang, ethnic slur, humorous) The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.
Hyponyms
Holonyms
Coordinate terms
  • (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Bislama: raes
  • → Tok Pisin: rais
Translations

Verb

rice (third-person singular simple present rices, present participle ricing, simple past and past participle riced)

  1. (transitive) To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).
  2. (intransitive) To harvest wild rice (Zizania sp.)
  3. (rare) To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
  4. (computing, transitive) To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment.

Etymology 2

From Middle English ris, rys, from Old English hrīs (“branch; twig”), from Proto-Germanic *hrīsą (“bush; twig”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreys- (“to turn; bend; wind; move; shake”). Cognate with Scots reise, rice (“twigs; brushwood”), West Frisian riis, rys, Dutch rijs (“little branch; twig; osier; whip”), German Low German Ries, German Reis (“twig; sprig; shoot”), Swedish ris (“twigs; brush; rod”), Icelandic hrís.

Alternative forms

  • rise

Noun

rice (plural rices)

  1. (now chiefly, dialectal, Scotland, Ireland) A twig or stick.
  2. (weaving, obsolete) A bobbin or spool.
Related terms
  • rise-wood/risewood

References

Anagrams

  • ERIC, Eric, cire, eric, icer

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrʲit͡sɛ/, [ˈrʲit͡sə]

Verb

rice

  1. third-person plural present of ricaś

Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

rice

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of riche (“rich”)

Etymology 2

Noun

rice

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of riche (“realm”)

Old English

Alternative forms

  • rīc

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“kingdom, realm”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈriː.t͡ʃe/

Noun

rīċe n

  2. kingdom, empire
    • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Chair of Saint Peter"
  3. reign
  4. authority, dominion
Declension
Derived terms
  • bisċoprīċe (“diocese”)
  • cynerīċe (“kingdom”)
  • ēþelrīċe (“native realm”)
  • fiþerrīċe (“tetrarchy”)
  • Francrīċe (“France”)
  • heofonrīċe (“kingdom of heaven”)
  • rīċedōm (“dominion”)
  • ricsian (“to rule, prevail”)
  • Rōmāna rīċe (“Roman Empire”)
Related terms
  • rīċen
  • ricsian
Descendants
  • Middle English: riche, ryche; rik, rike, ryk; rice

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“mighty, rich”).

Adjective

rīċe (superlative riċost)

  2. rich
  3. powerful
Declension
Descendants
  • Middle English: riche, rech, reche, rich, ruche, rych, ryche; reke, rik, rike; rice
    • English: rich
    • Scots: rich
    • Yola: reeche

See also

  • rīcsian

Old French

Adjective

rice m (oblique and nominative feminine singular rice)

  1. (Picardy) Alternative form of riche

Spanish

Verb

rice

  1. inflection of rizar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org