Piranha
German, noun/piˈʁanja/
Piranha is spelled P-I-R-A-N-H-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 67,080th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Piranha is a German masculine noun meaning “piranha (fish)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “im Schwarm jagender Raubfisch mit sehr scharfen Zähnen, der seine Beute rasch abfrisst”.
What does Piranha mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepiranha (fish)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. im Schwarm jagender Raubfisch mit sehr scharfen Zähnen, der seine Beute rasch abfrisst
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Piranha
- Piranhas genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Piranha?
- /piˈʁanja/
- [piˈʁanja]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Piranha
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Piranha in German?
Piranha appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).