pirañas
[piˈɾaɲas]
The verdict
“pirañas” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #51,839 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,839
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de piraña.
Corpus desk
Index ES-piranas · pirañas · Spanish
pirañas · rank #51,839 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,839
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH Peñafiel
Nearest frequency peer: Peñafiel (-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 “pirañas”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- perversidad
perversidad
48,165 corpus weight
- petros
petros
48,164 corpus weight
- Peñafiel
Peñafiel
48,163 corpus weight
- pirañas
pirañas
48,162 corpus weight
- piñones
piñones
48,161 corpus weight
- planificado…
planificadores
48,160 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “pirañas” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pirañas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [piˈɾaɲas] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “pirañas” en español
Rare enough to double-check
pirañas is uncommon Spanish at frequency #51,839 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [piˈɾaɲas]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forma del plural de piraña.".
Zero misspellings are on record for pirañas in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is pirañas, spelled P-I-R-A-Ñ-A-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de piraña.
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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