rice

1. 1.

   sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice

   “rice the potatoes”

   Broadersift

   cooking

Other forms of rice

plural

rices·

past tense

riced·

present participle

ricing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rice

What does rice mean?

rice means "grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rice?

rice has 1 syllable: rice. In IPA it is /ˈɹaɪs/.

What is another word for rice?

Close synonyms include Sir Tim Rice, Timothy Miles Bindon Rice, Elmer Rice, Elmer Leopold Rice, Elmer Reizenstein. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rice a common word?

rice is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.