About The Word “Vice”

Everything you wanted to know about the word “vice”, including spelling, parts of speech, “vice” meaning and origins, anagrams, rhyming words, encodings, crossword clues and much more!

How to spell “vice”

Vice is spelled v-i-c-e and has 4 letters.


How to pronounce “vice”

IPA pronunciation: /vaɪs/

Phonetic pronunciation: vys


How many vowels and consonants in “vice”

The word “vice” has 2 consonants and 2 vowels.


How many syllables in “vice”?

There is 1 syllable in the word “vice”.


What type of word is “vice”?

The word "vice" can be a noun, verb and adjective.

Meaning of the word “vice”

Vice refers to an immoral or wicked behavior, habit, or characteristic that is considered socially unacceptable or harmful. In another context, it can also denote a tool with adjustable jaws used for holding an object firmly in place while work is done on it, typically attached to a workbench.

Origin of the word “vice”

The word 'vice' has its origins in Latin, derived from the word 'vitium', meaning a fault or defect. It was later adopted into Old French as 'vice' and then into Middle English, retaining its meaning as a moral failing or weakness.
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Synonyms for “vice”

Other words for “vice” include sin, immorality, wickedness, evil, iniquity, corruption, depravity, transgression.

Word families for “vice”

Vices

Common misspellings of “vice”

Vace

Similar words to “vice”

Advice, device, evince, ice, novice, venice, vic, vices, vickie, vie, vince, vivace, voice, voiced, voices, viced

Scrambled words derived from “vice”

Icev, ivec, ecvi, cvie, ceiv, ievc, evci, cvei, veci, evic, cevi, eivc, iecv, eciv, vcie, veic, cive, ivce, vcei, viec

Crossword clues for “vice”

Wicked grip holds tight (4).

Anagrams of “vice”

Cive

Fun facts about the word “vice”

The word “vice” has a Scrabble score of 9 and reads eciv in reverse.


Phonetic spelling of “vice”

Victor India Charlie Echo

The phonetic alphabet, specifically the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), is a system of notation for the sounds of languages created by linguists. Unlike conventional written alphabets, which vary across languages and can have inconsistent mappings of symbols to sounds, the IPA is designed to provide a consistent and universally understood means of transcribing the sounds of any spoken language.

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“vice” spelled in Morse code

...- .. -.-. . (dot dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dash dot dot).

Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. It was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail for their new invention, the telegraph, which required a simple way to transmit text messages across long distances.

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ASCII spelling of “vice”

Lowercase word: 118 105 99 101

Uppercase word: 86 73 67 69

ASCII, which stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard used by computers and electronic devices to understand and represent text.

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Binary spelling of “vice”

Lowercase word: 1110110 1101001 1100011 1100101

Uppercase word: 1010110 1001001 1000011 1000101

Binary encoding is a system that computers and digital devices use to represent and process information. It's based on binary numbers, which are composed only of zeros and ones, known as bits.

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Hexadecimal value of “vice”

Lowercase hexadecimal word: 0x76 0x69 0x63 0x65

Uppercase hexadecimal word: 0x56 0x49 0x43 0x45

Hexadecimal is a number system commonly used in computing as a human-friendly way of representing binary data. Unlike the decimal system, which is base 10 and uses digits from 0 to 9, the hexadecimal system is base 16, using digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F to represent the values 10 to 15.

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Decimal spelling of “vice”

Lowercase: 118 105 99 101

Upprcase: 86 73 67 69

The decimal system, also known as base-10, is the numerical system most commonly used by people in everyday life. It's called "base-10" because it uses ten digits: 0 through 9. Each position in a decimal number represents a power of 10.

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Octal value of “vice”

Lowercase: 166 151 143 145

Upprcase: 126 111 103 105

Octal is a base-8 number system used in digital computing. Unlike the decimal system which uses ten digits (0-9), and the binary system which uses two (0 and 1), the octal system uses eight digits: 0 through 7. Each position in an octal number represents a power of 8.

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