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perai

noun

perai is spelled P-E-R-A-I: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Perai, the name). As a noun, perai means “Alternative form of pirai (“piranha fish”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of perai is perais.

How many letters and syllables are in perai?

Letters5: P-E-R-A-I
In writingabout once in every 71 million words; the 265,644th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is perai?

Perai appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Perai, the name.

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

Forms of perai

  • perais plural

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

What does perai mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of pirai (“piranha fish”).

    A perai itself, if wounded by any chance, is at once attacked and devoured by its fellows. If a monkey or bird, when shot, falls in the water, perai rush together from all quarters and carry off the prey before the sportsman can reach it, [

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

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