Piranhas
[piˈʁanjas]
The verdict
“Piranhas” is uncommon German (frequency #86,911 among 49,534 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,911
- frequency rank, German
- 49,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Piranha
Corpus desk
Index DE-piranhas · Piranhas · German
Piranhas · rank #86,911 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,911
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 49,534
- PHOTO-FINISH pigs
Nearest frequency peer: pigs (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Piranhas”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Pflanzenart
Pflanzenart
13,094 corpus weight
- Pfuhl
Pfuhl
13,092 corpus weight
- pigs
pigs
13,091 corpus weight
- Piranhas
Piranhas
13,090 corpus weight
- Polsterung
Polsterung
13,088 corpus weight
- Pore
Pore
13,087 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Piranhas” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Piranhas |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [piˈʁanjas] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,911 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Piranhas” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Piranhas is uncommon German at frequency #86,911 among 49,534 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [piˈʁanjas]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Piranhas doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Piranhas, spelled P-I-R-A-N-H-A-S.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Piranha
- 2Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Piranha
- 3Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Piranha
- 4Dativ Plural des Substantivs Piranha
- 5Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Piranha
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Piranhas", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.