pies
/paɪz/
"pies" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pies” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,397) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,397
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of pie
Corpus desk
Index EN-pies · pies · English
pies · rank #13,397 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,397
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Peyton
Nearest frequency peer: Peyton (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “pies”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- passions
passions
86,608 corpus weight
- Patty
Patty
86,606 corpus weight
- Peyton
Peyton
86,605 corpus weight
- pies
pies
86,604 corpus weight
- pineapple
pineapple
86,603 corpus weight
- pissing
pissing
86,602 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “pies” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pies |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /paɪz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “pies”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pies is neighbouring look-alikes ("PS", "pin", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /paɪz/. Frequency #13,397 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Gloss: "plural of pie".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for pies, with forms such as "ipes", "peis", and "piess". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PS", "pin", "pit", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is pies, spelled P-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of pie
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipes
- peis
- piess
- pise
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pies - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).