Piranha
[piˈʁanja]
The verdict
“Piranha” is uncommon German (frequency #67,591 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,591
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - im Schwarm jagender Raubfisch mit sehr scharfen Zähnen, der seine Beute rasch abfrisst
Corpus desk
Index DE-piranha · Piranha · German
Piranha · rank #67,591 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,591
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Plaketten
Nearest frequency peer: Plaketten (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Piranha“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Pflegefamil…
Pflegefamilien
32,413 corpus weight
- Pflegern
Pflegern
32,412 corpus weight
- Piranha
Piranha
32,410 corpus weight
- Plaketten
Plaketten
32,409 corpus weight
- Playern
Playern
32,408 corpus weight
- Plenarsitzu…
Plenarsitzung
32,407 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Piranha“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Piranha |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [piˈʁanja] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,591 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Piranha“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Piranha is uncommon German at frequency #67,591 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [piˈʁanja]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "im Schwarm jagender Raubfisch mit sehr scharfen Zähnen, der seine Beute rasch abfrisst".
Zero misspellings are on record for Piranha in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Piranha, spelled P-I-R-A-N-H-A.
Definition
- 1im Schwarm jagender Raubfisch mit sehr scharfen Zähnen, der seine Beute rasch abfrisst
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Piranha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Schwarze Piranha ist der Fisch mit dem kräftigsten Kiefer.
Auch der Kiefer von Tyrannosaurus Rex hätte im Verhältnis schwach gewirkt neben dem des Schwarzen Piranhas.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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