piranha
French, noun/pi.ʁa.na/
piranha is spelled P-I-R-A-N-H-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 60,632nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Piranha is a French masculine noun meaning “piranha” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Poisson carnivore d’eau douce de la famille des characidés, vivant dans les rivières d’Amérique du Sud”.
What does piranha mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepiranha
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Poisson carnivore d’eau douce de la famille des characidés, vivant dans les rivières d’Amérique du Sud.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of piranha
- piranhas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce piranha?
- /pi.ʁa.na/
- /pi.ʁa.ɲa/
- \pi.ʁa.na\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to piranha
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is piranha in French?
piranha appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).