# pao vs pi

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### pao
*noun · frequency rank #25,514*
A fairy chess piece which moves identically to the xiangqi cannon, moving orthogonally and must hop over a piece of either side to capture.

### pi
*noun · IPA /paɪ/ · frequency rank #8,073*
The sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pao-vs-pi