pie: meaning and words from its letters
3 letters · 5 letter points · starts with P · ends with E
Meaning of pie
noun
- countable, uncountable
A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. (Savory pies are more popular in the UK and sweet pies are more popular in the US, so "pie" without qualification has different connotations in these dialects.)
Example: The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.
- countable, uncountable
Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
Example: Shepherd's pie is made of mince covered with mashed potato.
- Northeastern, US, countable, uncountable
A pizza.
- countable, uncountable
A paper plate covered in cream, shaving foam or custard that is thrown or rubbed in someone’s face for comical purposes, to raise money for charity, or as a form of political protest; a custard pie; a cream pie.
Listed forms: pies.
Source: Wiktionary — pie.
verb
- transitive
To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
Example: I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board.
- transitive
To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
- UK, often, slang, transitive
To ignore (someone).
Listed forms: pies, pieing, pied.
Source: Wiktionary — pie.
noun
- obsolete
Magpie.
Listed forms: pies.
Source: Wiktionary — pie.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is pie in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of pie
P(3) + I(1) + E(1) = 5 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of pie
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from pie
2 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in pie. Showing up to 24, longest first.