Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

apple pie

/ˌæp.əlˈpaɪ/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.09 in modern English

Syllables: ap-ple pie
IPA: /ˌæp.əlˈpaɪ/

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A pie or tart made with a filling of cooked apples.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Anything positive that is quintessentially American.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Any of various willowherbs.

British usage; Countable; Uncountable

verb

Of a bed, to make an apple-pie bed.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"The enticing, homey scent of apple pie wafted into the hallway as she beckoned them into her lair."
"[…] what we've been waiting for so long: a positive but never Pollyanish play about gays leading lives which are neither some bizarre caricature taken from heterosexual fantasy nor even more nuclear and apple-pie normal than any straight lives anyone has ever heard of."
"Hanks has often been called our generation's answer to James Stewart, and the similarities are certainly there. With his shared "gee shucks" sweetness and apple pie Americanness, Stewart also appeared in many war films and family dramas."
"She was a refugee, not to America but from within America: a Mom and apple pie America, an America of the past that was being rapidly transformed by material inventions, and by the freeways, malls, and drive-in banks cited in the song Big Science as landmarks on the road to town."

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˌæp.əlˈpaɪ/
British English: /ˌæp.əlˈpaɪ/

Usage

Inflected Forms

apple pies (plural) apple-pie (alternative) apple pies (present, singular) apple pieing (participle, present) apple pied (participle, past) apple pied (past)

Phrases

American as apple pie apple-pie bed apple-pie order apple pie shooter English as apple pie flag, motherhood and apple pie mom and apple pie motherhood and apple pie

Synonyms

shortsheet

Rhymes With

by my why high on high try guy buy little guy why oh why july die

Questions

How do you pronounce apple pie?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌæp.əlˈpaɪ/.
What does apple pie mean?: A pie or tart made with a filling of cooked apples.

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