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Pirani

noun

Pirani is spelled P-I-R-A-N-I: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Pirani means “A Pirani gauge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Pirani is Piranis.

How many letters and syllables are in Pirani?

Letters6: P-I-R-A-N-I
In writingabout once in every 31 million words; the 169,822nd 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 Pirani?

Pirani appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd 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).

Forms of Pirani

  • Piranis plural

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

What does Pirani mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A Pirani gauge.

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

Where does Pirani come from?

Borrowed from either Italian Pirani or Persian پیرانی; the gauge is named after Marcello Stefano Pirani, a German physicist (1880–1968).

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

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