piranha
\pi.ʁa.na\
The verdict
“piranha” is uncommon French (frequency #61,036 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,036
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poisson carnivore d’eau douce de la famille des characidés, vivant dans les rivières d’Amérique du Sud.
Corpus desk
Index FR-piranha · piranha · French
piranha · rank #61,036 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,036
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piquez
Nearest frequency peer: piquez (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « piranha »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pictogrammes
pictogrammes
38,968 corpus weight
- pillant
pillant
38,967 corpus weight
- piquez
piquez
38,966 corpus weight
- piranha
piranha
38,965 corpus weight
- planificate…
planificateur
38,964 corpus weight
- platitude
platitude
38,963 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « piranha » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piranha |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.ʁa.na\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,036 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « piranha » en français
Rare enough to double-check
piranha is uncommon French at frequency #61,036 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.ʁa.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poisson carnivore d’eau douce de la famille des characidés, vivant dans les rivières d’Amérique du Sud.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for piranha in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is piranha, spelled P-I-R-A-N-H-A.
Definition
- 1Poisson carnivore d’eau douce de la famille des characidés, vivant dans les rivières d’Amérique du Sud.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how piranha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sa large bouche béante dévoile des dents effilées faisant penser à une mâchoire de piranha.
L’homme de 30 ans est mort noyé après avoir été dévoré par des piranhas, alors qu’il tentait de fuir un essaim d’abeilles, rapporte le média brésilien Estado de Minas.
Synonyms
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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