trice

Other forms of trice

plural

trices·

past tense

triced·

present participle

tricing·

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 trice

What does trice mean?

trice means "raise with a line". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in trice?

trice has 1 syllable: trice. In IPA it is /ˈtɹaɪs/.

What is another word for trice?

Close synonyms include trice up, trice up, blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat. 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 trice a common word?

trice is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.