pyre
/ˈpaɪɚ/noun
pyre is spelled P-Y-R-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 42,145th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pyre means “A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pyre is pyres.
How many letters and syllables are in pyre?
| Letters | 4: P-Y-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 42,145th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 pyre?
Pyre appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 42,145th 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 pyre?
- /ˈpaɪɚ/
Pyre has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-pyre.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with pyre?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as pyre.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: prey.
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 pyre
- pyres plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does pyre mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
The villagers built a funeral pyre to honor their dead.
- 2
Any heap or pile of combustibles.
Flames rose high from the pyre in the night sky.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Pyre in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | bûcher |
| German | Scheiterhaufen , Feuerstapel |
| Portuguese | pira |
| Spanish | pira |
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 pyre come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin pyra (“pyre, funeral pile”), from Ancient Greek πυρά (purá), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”). Doublet of fire.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).