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Pea or pee?

pea is a noun meaning “Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others”; pee is a noun meaning “Urine”. They sound the same (/piː/). In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) pee is about 2.6 times as common as pea.

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What is the difference between pea and pee?

peapee
Part of speechnounnoun, verb
Meaning

Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others

A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family

A ball travelling at high velocity

informalUrine

AustraliaCanadaUSinformalAn act of urination

colloquialTo urinate

Examplepeas and riceHe was dying for a pee
Formspeaspees
Pronunciation/piː//ˈpiː/
In writing3.5 times per million words9.1 times per million words

Sources: pea and pee in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Every current meaning of pea and pee

pea

  1. 1

    noun Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others

  2. 2

    noun A ball travelling at high velocity

  3. 3

    noun Alternative form of peak

  4. 4

    noun Initialism of palmitoylethanolamide

  5. 5

    noun A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family

  6. 6

    noun USAny of the small numbered balls used in a pea shake game

  7. 7

    noun Initialism of pulseless electrical activity

  8. 8

    noun The edible seed of Pisum sativum

pee

  1. 1

    noun informalUrine

  2. 2

    verb colloquialTo urinate

    The schoolboy called out to his friend while he was peeing in the urinal

  3. 3

    noun The name of the Latin script letter P/p

  4. 4

    noun IrelandUKcolloquialPence; penny (a quantity of money)

    I bought these carrots for fifty pee

  5. 5

    noun The bill of an anchor

  6. 6

    noun The sliding weight on a steelyard

  7. 7

    noun Alternative letter-case form of pee

  8. 8

    noun AustraliaCanadaUSinformalAn act of urination

    He was dying for a pee

Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.

Which is more common, pea or pee?

pea appears 3.5 times per million words; pee 9.1 times per million words.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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