Balcony, or tower .
To my mind, the above are parts of land buildings, whereas a pier is built out over water with the initial purpose of enabling ships to land passengers at any state of the tide. Try 'jetty', or, less frequently, 'wharf'.
Dock, Wharf, Pier, Harbor
That is the correct spelling.
We boarded the ship at the pier.
I was playing in the fair at the pier
The pier jutted out into the ocean. We stood on the pier and fished for hours.
A quay is a platform built parallel to the shore where ships can tie up to. A pier is another four letter word where a ship can dock.
sambashi
The official definition of the word pier is "a structure leading out from the shore into a body of water, in particular."
A homonym for the word "pier" is "peer," which sounds the same but has a different meaning (referring to a person of the same status or rank).
peer
kishan roxs
A pier is a structure sticking out over the sea used as a promenade or a landing stage.