Meaning and background
The story behind Spice
Spice connects a dog’s name with flavor and fragrance. Merriam-Webster defines a spice as a plant product used to season food, including materials from seeds, fruit, bark and underground stems. It also records the figurative sense of something that adds zest, along with a fragrant odor. A favorite ingredient or a love of cooking can make the reference personal. These are established English word senses, rather than one inherited personal-name meaning.
- Association
- Plant material used to season food; also something adding zest or a fragrant odor. Source
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About Spice
Recorded as a dog’s name
Spice appears in 14 dog licence records in the 2026 New York City dataset.
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Pronunciation and rhythm
/spaɪs/
US English sound sequence, converted from the CMU dictionary. Stress marks are shown separately.
Stress on the first syllable in the recorded US readings.
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/spaɪs/ · primary stress on syllable 1S P AY1 S
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Sources and research notes (2)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — extract_year 2026 — Dog licence periods, not unique dogs; NYC only. No owner-level fields retrieved.
- Carnegie Mellon University / CMU Sphinx maintainers CMU US English Pronouncing Dictionary — US English dictionary readings; not owner-specific or exhaustive multilingual pronunciation
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