pie

\pi\

/\pi\/ noun

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The verdict

“pie” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,596) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#8,596
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passereau de la famille des corvidés à longue queue, à plumage noir et au ventre blanc, renommé pour son bavardage et son attirance envers les objets brillants.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pie · pie · French

pie · rank #8,596 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,596
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pistolet

Nearest frequency peer: pistolet (+1 rank slots)

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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « pie »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « pie » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pie vs pu
33% similar
pie vs PS
0% similar
pie vs PQ
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pie
PropertyValue
Headwordpie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pi\
Letters3
Frequency rank#8,596
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « pie »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.piese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « pistolet » (#8,597), « plonger » (#8,598), « paulo » (#8,593). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pie » est au #8,596. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for pie is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \pi\. Frequency #8,596 among 6,826 “P” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Zero misspellings are on record for pie in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pu", "PS", "PQ", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pie, spelled P-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Passereau de la famille des corvidés à longue queue, à plumage noir et au ventre blanc, renommé pour son bavardage et son attirance envers les objets brillants.
  2. 2
    Personne bavarde ou curieuse, qualités prêtées à l’animal.
  3. 3
    Pièce de terre soumise à l’assolement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how pie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Tavannes remit la pie sur son bâton, et s’amusa à rouler et à dérouler les oreilles d’un lévrier.
  2. Par exemple, les oiseaux de la famille des corvidés comme les pies, les geais ou les corbeaux, individus fort éloignés phylogénétiquement des primates que nous sommes, ont démontré des compétences telles que la reconnaissance de soi, la capacité à dénombrer, la fabrication d’outils, l’utilisation de symboles, la mémoire épisodique, la capacité à se projet…

Synonyms

agacheagasseaguiasseageasseégeasseouasseaiguaisseajacegnassegniassejassemargotbabillardbavardjacasseurmargot

This word in other languages

magpie(English)urraca(Español)Elster(Deutsch)pega(Português)

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pie"?
"pie" is spelled P-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pi\.
What does "pie" mean?
As a noun, "pie" means: Passereau de la famille des corvidés à longue queue, à plumage noir et au ventre blanc, renommé pour son bavardage et son attirance envers les objets brillants.
What words are commonly confused with "pie"?
"pie" is commonly confused with "pu", "PS", "PQ". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pie" is \pi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pie" come from?
"pie" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

hip#8,554han#8,553app#8,652bcp#8,660

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list