potpie
noun
potpie is a noun meaning “(US) A pie, having pastry sides and bottom and (usually also) top, and filled with savory fillings, such as meat, root vegetables, or (often) both” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-O-T-P-I-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 62 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of potpie is potpies.
What does potpie mean?
noun
- 1
UK(US) A pie, having pastry sides and bottom and (usually also) top, and filled with savory fillings, such as meat, root vegetables, or (often) both.
- 2
UKEspecially, such a pie that is small, that has crust made entirely of flaky pastry, and that is baked in its own pie tin, usually for one person (single-serve).
- 3
USA dish of meat and vegetable stew with dumplings.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce potpie?
Potpie 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).
Forms of potpie
- potpies plural
- pot-pie
- pot pie
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is potpie?
Potpie appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st 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).
Where does potpie come from?
From pot + pie.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).