Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pie house

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.18 in modern English

Syllables: pie -house
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A shop that sells pies.

Example Sentences

"The Pious Club derived its name, not from any devoutness in its members, but from the pie house where they met."
"“But I'll give you two coppers for the dog. I can have it sold to a pie house within the hour.” Town Dog made into pie! It didn’t bear thinking about, and it very nearly made Crope never want to eat pie again."
"The Sterns, instead, saw virtue in small-town crab houses and big-city pie houses."

Etymology

From Middle English piehus.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: piehus

Inflected Forms

pie houses (plural) pie-house (alternative) piehouse (alternative)

Synonyms

pieshop

Questions

What does pie house mean?: A shop that sells pies.
Where does pie house come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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