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danio

noun

danio is spelled D-A-N-I-O: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, danio means “Any of various fish of the genera Danio or Devario” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of danio is danios.

How many letters and syllables are in danio?

Letters5: D-A-N-I-O
In writingabout once in every 42 million words; the 199,120th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is danio?

Danio appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What rhymes with danio?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as danio.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: doina.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of danio

  • danios plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does danio mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Any of various fish of the genera Danio or Devario.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Danio in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Danio-genus fish:

LanguageWords
Frenchdanio
Portuguesedanio
Spanishdanio

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does danio come from?

Borrowed from translingual Danio, from Bengali ধানি (dhani, “relating to paddies”) + Latin -ō (masculine noun suffix).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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