piper
/ˈpaɪ.pɚ/noun
piper is spelled P-I-P-E-R: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 4.8 times per million words in written English, the 11,541st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, piper means “A musician who plays a pipe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of piper is pipers.
How many letters and syllables are in piper?
| Letters | 5: P-I-P-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.8 times per million words; the 11,541st 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 piper?
Piper appears 4.8 times per million words in written English, the 11,541st 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 piper?
- UK /ˈpaɪ.pə/
- US /ˈpaɪ.pɚ/
- Canada /ˈpʌɪ.pɚ/
Piper 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)-Vealhurl-piper.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with piper
Also written: pepper.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with piper?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as piper from its last stressed vowel (/aɪpəɹ/):
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 piper
- pipers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does piper mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A musician who plays a pipe.
- 2
A bagpiper.
- 3
A baby pigeon.
- 4
A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
- 5
A sea urchin (Cidaris cidaris) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.
- 6
A halfbeak (Hyporhamphus ihi) found in New Zealand.
- 7
obsoleteslangA broken-winded hack horse.
- 8
slangA person who smokes crack cocaine.
noun
- 1
An airplane made by Piper.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Piper in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense musician who plays a pipe:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | joueur de pipeau, joueuse de pipeau |
| Portuguese | flautista |
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 piper come from?
From Middle English piper, pipere; equivalent to pipe + -er. Piecewise doublet of fifer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).