# pie vs PS

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### pie
*noun · IPA /paɪ/ · frequency rank #5,244*
A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. (Savory pies are more popular in the UK and sweet pies are more popular in the US, so "pie" without qualification has different connotations in these dialects.)

### PS
*name · frequency rank #6,953*
Initialism of a number of proto-languages' names:

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