Pea in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Pea

You can make 7 words from 'pea' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'pea'
• 2 letters words from 'pea'

3 letters words from 'pea'

APE 5

PEA 5

2 letters words from 'pea'

AE 2	EA 2
PA 4	PE 4

Definitions and meaning of pea

pea

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: P, pee

Etymology 1

Back-formation from pease, an original singular reinterpreted as a plural. Further from Middle English pese (“a pea”), from Old English pisa, from Latin pisa, pisum, from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson).

Alternative forms

• pease (archaic)

Noun

pea (plural peas)

1. (botany) A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
2. (botany) Any plant of the family Fabaceae.
3. (cooking) The edible seed of Pisum sativum; the green pea.
4. (cooking) The edible seed of various other pea plants.
5. (Jamaican) Any of several varieties of bean.

   peas and rice

Usage notes

See usage notes at bean regarding the differences in terminology.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Abenaki: piz (“a pea”)
• → Mohegan-Pequot: pish (“a pea”)
• → Yurok: pi·š, peeesh (“a pea”)

Translations

Etymology 2

From having the appearance of a pea (see English etymology 1), the edible seed of Pisum sativum, the pea plant.

Noun

pea (plural peas)

1. (baseball) A ball travelling at high velocity.
2. (US, Indiana, gambling) Any of the small numbered balls used in a pea shake game.
3. (astronomy) Ellipsis of green pea galaxy

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English pe, po, poue, pa, paue, from Old English pēa, pāwa (“peacock”) (compare Old English pāwe (“peahen”)) and Old Norse pái (“peacock”), both from Proto-Germanic *pāwô (“peacock”), from Latin pāvō (“peacock”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pau, West Frisian pau, Dutch pauw, German Pfau. Doublet of Pavo.

Noun

pea (plural peas)

1. (rare, archaic) a peafowl

Derived terms

Etymology 4

Noun

pea (plural peas)

1. (nautical) Alternative form of peak

Further reading

• pea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EAP, EPA, PAE, Pae, ape

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Basque

Noun

pea

1. absolutive singular of pe

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Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pää, from Proto-Uralic *päŋe. Cognate with Finnish pää and Hungarian fej.

Noun

pea (genitive pea, partitive pead)

1. head

Declension

Adverb

pea

1. almost

2. soon, immediately, quickly (in modern use almost always together with some other word or affix, such as kohe, õige, nii, -gi)

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Hawaiian

Etymology

From English bear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.a/, [ˈpɛjə]

Noun

pea

1. bear

Derived terms

• pea ʻālika (“polar bear”)
• pea pāʻani (“teddy bear”)
• pea Kina (“panda bear”)

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Japanese

Romanization

pea

1. Rōmaji transcription of ペア

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Maori

Etymology

From English bear.

Noun

pea

1. bear

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpea/, [ˈpe.a]

Etymology 1

From peer.

Noun

pea f (plural peas)

1. (colloquial) drunkenness

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

pea

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of peer.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of peer.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of peer.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of peer.

Further reading

• “pea” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

-pea (infinitive kupea)

1. Applicative form of -pa: to give to

Conjugation

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Walloon

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pea ? (plural peas)

1. (anatomy) skin

Source: wiktionary.org

• the edible seed of an annual herb.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)