five vs dice

five and dice both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
five	Yes	Yes	No	No
dice	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, dice is a hypernym of five; that is, dice is a word with a broader meaning than five:

five: a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips
dice: a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers

Other hypernyms of five include die, domino, spot.

five (noun)	dice (noun)
a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips	a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
a team that plays basketball
the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one

five (adjective)	dice (adjective)
being one more than four

five (verb)	dice (verb)
	play dice
	cut into cubes