pi
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 2 letters. In the size-ranked list, pi sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 296 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 10hi, mi
What it means
- nounthe ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle; approximately equal to 3.14159265358979323846 …
- nounthe 16th letter of the Greek alphabet
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p ay1 — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
176 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- alibi
- alkali
- amplify
- apply
- awry
- aye
- beautify
- belie
- butterfly
- buy
- by
- bye
- certify
- chi
- clarify
- classify
- comply
- crucify
- cry
- decry
- defy
- deify
- deny
- die
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 2 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 10% of the 96 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.