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pee

/ˈpiː/noun, verb

pee is spelled P-E-E: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 9.1 times per million words in written English, the 7,553rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pee means “Urine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pee is pees.

How many letters and syllables are in pee?

Letters3: P-E-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing9.1 times per million words; the 7,553rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Sounds like
Same letters

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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is pee?

Pee appears 9.1 times per million words in written English, the 7,553rd 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 pee?

  • /ˈpiː/

Pee has one syllable (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)-Vealhurl-pee.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with pee

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

pea vs pee0 B

Sounds like: p, pea (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with pee?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as pee.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: eep.

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).

Forms of pee

  • pees plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • peeing participle, present
  • peed participle, past
  • pea

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does pee mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    informalUrine.

  2. 2

    AustraliaCanadaUSinformalAn act of urination.

    He was dying for a pee.

  3. 3

    The name of the Latin script letter P/p.

  4. 4

    IrelandUKcolloquialPence; penny (a quantity of money)

    I bought these carrots for fifty pee.

  5. 5

    The bill of an anchor.

  6. 6

    The sliding weight on a steelyard.

verb

  1. 1

    colloquialTo urinate.

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

  2. 2

    colloquialTo urinate on oneself.

  3. 3

    colloquialTo urinate in or on something, particularly clothing.

    I was so excited, I peed the bed!

  4. 4

    colloquialvulgarTo drizzle.

    It's peeing with rain.

noun

as Pee
  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of pee.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Pee in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpipi (urine), faire pipi, uriner, pisser (urinate), pé (name of the letter P, p)
GermanPipi (urine), pinkeln, Pipi machen, pullern (urinate)
Portuguesechichi, xixi, pipi (urine), fazer chichi, fazer xixi, urinar (urinate)
Spanishpis, pipí, pichí, chis, meado, pichi (urine)

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 pee come from?

The initial letter of piss. Compare eff.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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