piranha

Other forms of piranha

plural

piranhas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about piranha

What does piranha mean?

piranha means "someone who attacks in search of booty". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in piranha?

piranha has 3 syllables: pi-ran-ha. The stress falls on "ran". In IPA it is /pɪˈɹænhə/.

What is another word for piranha?

Close synonyms include marauder, predator, vulture, pirana, caribe. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is piranha a common word?

piranha is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.