piraña
[piˈɾaɲa]
The verdict
“piraña” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #54,437 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #54,437
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Pristobrycon spp., Pygocentrus spp., Serrasalmus spp.) Cualquiera de una cincuentena de especies de peces fluviales nativos de América del Sur, de fuerte dentición y hábitos carnívoros y agresivos...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piraña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [piˈɾaɲa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “piraña” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for piraña is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [piˈɾaɲa]. Corpus data places it at rank #54,437 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Pristobrycon spp., Pygocentrus spp., Serrasalmus spp.) Cualquiera de una cincuentena de especies de peces fluviales nativos de América del Sur, de fuerte dentición y hábitos carnívoros y agresivos...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for piraña, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is piraña, spelled P-I-R-A-Ñ-A.
Definition
- 1(Pristobrycon spp., Pygocentrus spp., Serrasalmus spp.) Cualquiera de una cincuentena de especies de peces fluviales nativos de América del Sur, de fuerte dentición y hábitos carnívoros y agresivos, aunque la extrema voracidad con que se las representa habitualmente no tiene correlato real.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “piraña”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-I-R-A-Ñ-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [piˈɾaɲa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.