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pya

noun

pya is spelled P-Y-A: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pya means “A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Burmese kyat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pya is pyas.

How many letters and syllables are in pya?

Letters3: P-Y-A
In writingabout once in every 50 million words; the 220,118th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 pya?

Pya appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th 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).

What rhymes with pya?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: pay, yap.

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 pya

  • pyas plural

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

What does pya mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Burmese kyat.

  2. 2

    A subdivision of currency in colonial Burma, equal to 1/4 of an anna or 1/64 of a rupee

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

Where does pya come from?

From Burmese ပြား (pra:).

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

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