apiece
/əˈpis/adverb
apiece is spelled A-P-I-E-C-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,209th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adverb, apiece means “Following a noun or noun phrase: by, for, or to each one; each by itself” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in apiece?
| Letters | 6: A-P-I-E-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.7 times per million words; the 21,209th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is apiece?
Apiece appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,209th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce apiece?
- UK /əˈpiːs/
- US /əˈpis/
Apiece has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-apiece.wav, En-us-apiece.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with apiece?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as apiece from its last stressed vowel (/is/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does apiece mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
Following a noun or noun phrase: by, for, or to each one; each by itself.
Near-synonyms: all, individually, singly; piecemeal, piecewise
- 2
For an undetermined distance.
down the road apiece
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Apiece in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense by, for, or to each one:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | chacun, chacune |
| German | jedes einzelne, je Stück, pro Stück |
| Portuguese | cada um, cada uma |
| Spanish | cada uno |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does apiece come from?
Univerbation of a + piece (noun), from Late Middle English a pece. Pece is derived from Anglo-Norman pece, peece, peice, Middle French piece, and Old French pece, pice, piece (“part of a whole”) (modern French pièce); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Late Latin *pettia, *pettium (compare pecia, pecium, petia, petium (“broken piece, fragment; piece of land”)), or from their possible etymon Gaulish *pettyā, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis (“piece, portion; quota”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).