four-spot vs dice

four-spot and dice both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
four-spot	Yes	No	No	No
dice	Yes	No	Yes	No

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

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

Other hypernyms of four-spot include die, domino, spot.

four-spot (noun)	dice (noun)
a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips	a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers

four-spot (verb)	dice (verb)
	play dice
	cut into cubes