spice

1. 1.

   make more interesting or flavorful

   “Spice up the evening by inviting a belly dancer”

   Synonymsspice up

   Broaderchange

   Narrowersalt
2. 2.

   add herbs or spices to

   Synonymszestspice up

   Broaderseason

   Narrowergingerpepper

   cooking

Other forms of spice

plural

spices·

past tense

spiced·

present participle

spicing·

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 spice

What does spice mean?

spice means "aromatic substances of vegetable origin used as a preservative". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spice?

spice has 1 syllable: spice. In IPA it is /ˈspaɪs/.

What is another word for spice?

Close synonyms include spiciness, spicery, spice up, zest, spice up. 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 spice a common word?

spice 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.

What rhymes with spice?

1 word rhymes with spice. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.