piraña
[piˈɾaɲa]
The verdict
“piraña” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #54,437 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,437
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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...
Corpus desk
Index ES-pirana · piraña · Spanish
piraña · rank #54,437 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,437
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pisen
Nearest frequency peer: pisen (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “piraña”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- piccolo
piccolo
45,568 corpus weight
- piraña
piraña
45,564 corpus weight
- pisen
pisen
45,563 corpus weight
- pitido
pitido
45,562 corpus weight
- pocilga
pocilga
45,559 corpus weight
- poemarios
poemarios
45,558 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “piraña” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cola larga: rango de “piraña” en español
Rare enough to double-check
piraña is uncommon Spanish at frequency #54,437 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [piˈɾaɲa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(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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