voice vs say

voice and say both are nouns.

voice and say both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
voice	Yes	No	Yes	No
say	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, say is a hypernym of voice; that is, say is a word with a broader meaning than voice:

voice: utter with vibrating vocal chords
say: speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way

Other hypernyms of voice include articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, sound out.

voice (noun)	say (noun)
a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated	the chance to speak
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
the ability to speak
the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
expressing in coherent verbal form
the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced.
a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
(metonymy) a singer
(linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes

voice (verb)	say (verb)
give voice to	express in words
utter with vibrating vocal chords	report or maintain
	speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way
	express a supposition
	give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
	communicate or express nonverbally
	recite or repeat a fixed text
	indicate
	state as one's opinion or judgement; declare
	utter aloud
	have or contain a certain wording or form

Difference between voice and say

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