Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

api

/ˌeɪˌpiˈaɪ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.68 in modern English

Syllables: api
IPA: /ˌeɪˌpiˈaɪ/

5

Scrabble Score

3

Letters

3

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Initialism of active pharmaceutical ingredient.

noun

Initialism of application programming interface.

noun

Initialism of Asian and Pacific Islander.

noun

Initialism of advanced primer ignition.

noun

Initialism of armor-piercing incendiary.

name

Initialism of American Petroleum Institute.

name

Initialism of Additional Protocol I of 1977 to the four Geneva Conventions.

name

A mountain of the Himalayas in the western part of Nepal, near the border of Tibet.

Example Sentences

"Looking to the east we could see Api and the mountains of west Nepal, shapely snow peaks in the distance, while in the immediate foreground, much lower but still dramatic, were the peaks of Panch Chuli IV and V (III was hidden by the lip of a huge cornice), Telkot and Nagling, all of them unclimbed, all steep and challenging."

Etymology

From Tibetan ཨ་ཕྱི (a phyi, “grandmother”).

Word Breakdown

Root: ཨ་ཕྱི

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˌeɪˌpiˈaɪ/

Inflected Forms

APIs (plural)

Phrases

API donut API gravity API Service Symbol

Frequently Paired Words

AAPI AP I

Rhymes With

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Questions

How do you pronounce api?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌeɪˌpiˈaɪ/.
What does api mean?: Initialism of active pharmaceutical ingredient.
Where does api come from?: From Tibetan ཨ་ཕྱི (a phyi, “grandmother”).

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