Piranha
[piˈʁanja]
The verdict
“Piranha” is an uncommon German word, ranked #67,591 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #67,591
- frequency rank, German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - im Schwarm jagender Raubfisch mit sehr scharfen Zähnen, der seine Beute rasch abfrisst
| 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) |
Where “Piranha” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Piranha is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [piˈʁanja]. Corpus data places it at rank #67,591 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
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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Using “Piranha”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is P-I-R-A-N-H-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [piˈʁanja] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.