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swai

/swaɪ/noun

swai is spelled S-W-A-I: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, swai means “Synonym of iridescent shark (“a shark catfish of species Pangasianodon hypophthalmus”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in swai?

Letters4: S-W-A-I
In writingabout once in every 65 million words; the 252,559th 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 swai?

Swai appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th 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 swai?

  • /swaɪ/

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

What does swai mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Synonym of iridescent shark (“a shark catfish of species Pangasianodon hypophthalmus”).

  2. 2

    The meat of that fish

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

Where does swai come from?

Borrowed from Thai สวาย (sà-wǎai).

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

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