Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iː	see	ɪ	sit	e / ɛ	bed	æ	cat
ɑː	father	ɒ	hot (UK)	ɔː	law	ʊ	put
uː	too	ʌ	cup	ɜː	bird	ə	about
eɪ	day	aɪ	my	ɔɪ	boy	aʊ	now
əʊ / oʊ	go (UK / US)	ɪə	near	eə	hair	ʊə	tour

Consonants that look unusual

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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dice

/daɪs/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of die

Forms dices dicing diced

noun (uncountable) Gaming with one or more dice.
noun (countable, proscribed by some) A die.
noun (uncountable, formerly countable, cooking) That which has been diced.
verb (intransitive) To play dice.
verb (transitive) To cut into small cubes.
verb (transitive) To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

astragals die cube

Etymology

From Middle English dys, plural of dy. See the etymology of die (etymology 2) for further information. The voiceless /s/ was most likely retained because the word felt like a collective term rather than a plural form (compare pence), and the spelling dice is a result of the pronunciation.

Webster’s 1913

noun Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n. Dice coal, a kind of coal easily splitting into cubical fragments. Brande & C.
verb To play games with dice.
verb To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “dice”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “dice” (best matches first).

प्रासक prāsaka a die, dice.
कत्ताशब्द kattā-śabda the rattling sound of dice.
दीवन dīvana gambling, playing with dice;
पञ्चिका pañcikā a game played with five dice.
अभिदेवन abhi-devana a gambling-table, dice-table.
चातुरक्ष cāturakṣa four casts in playing at dice.
देवितृ devitṛ a dice-player, gamester, dicer.
कल्पिन् kalpin a term used in gambling with dice.

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