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guarani

/ˌɡwɑːɹəˈniː/noun

guarani is spelled G-U-A-R-A-N-I: 7 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 72,332nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, guarani means “Alternative form of guaraní” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of guarani is guaranís or guaranis.

How many letters and syllables are in guarani?

Letters7: G-U-A-R-A-N-I
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 6 million words; the 72,332nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is guarani?

Guarani appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 72,332nd 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).

How do you pronounce guarani?

  • /ˌɡwɑːɹəˈniː/

Guarani has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-Guaraní.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of guarani

  • guaranís plural
  • guaranis plural
  • guaranies plural

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

What does guarani mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of guaraní.

noun

as guaraní
  1. 1

    The currency of Paraguay, divided into 100 céntimos.

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

Guarani in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense currency of Paraguay:

LanguageWords
GermanGuaraní
Portugueseguarani
Spanishguaraní

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 guarani come from?

Borrowed from Spanish guaraní, from Paraguayan Guarani guarani.

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

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