The word you are looking for is dice.
Yes, "console" is a homograph. It can refer to either a type of furniture or a gaming device.
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The two dots above a letter, you mean, would be called a diaeresis and/or an umlaut.
I think they want dice but that's not really right because one of them is more properly a die.
The German word is "Umlaut."
diceConsider: BONE; dice is a plural of die and the question is in the singular. 'Playing with dice is still known as "rolling the bones" to this day', you will note from that expression that both 'dice' and 'bones' are plurals, singularly; dice becomes die and bones becomes bone. Perhaps the four letter word you seek?
To add two dots on top of a letter in Microsoft Word 2010, you can use the shortcut keys "Ctrl+Shift+:" followed by the letter. This will create the letter with two dots, called a diaeresis or umlaut.
No, console is not a compound word.
The word dots is a noun or a verb. Dots as a Verb: Sammy dots his paper with a paint brush. Dot as a noun: Sammy connected the dots to make a picture.