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Definition: Barracuda |
BarracudaNoun1. Any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Barracuda |
| English words defined with "barracuda": Becuna ♦ family Sphyraenidae ♦ genus Sphyraena, great barracuda ♦ Sennet, Sphyraena, Sphyraena barracuda, Sphyraenidae. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Barracuda" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (barracuda, spet), Spanish (barracuda), Swedish (barracuda). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Magnum Barracuda (1968) S.O.S. Barracuda - Terror im Paradies (2002) Barracuda Dancing (1999) S.O.S. Barracuda (1997) Barracuda (1997) | |
Song Titles | BARRACUDA (performing artist: HEART) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Great barracuda - Sphyraena barracuda. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | Barracuda dining on another luckless inhabitant of the reef. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | Healthy seagrass with a barracuda. Credit: Sanctuaries. |  | An ugly customer! The head of a barracuda. Credit: Sanctuaries. |
 | Barracuda observed during dive on reef. Credit: Small World. | ||
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| "Barracuda" by Eddie Wilson Commentary: "Pulling the barracuda i just caught out of the water." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Barracuda" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 69.23% of the time. "Barracuda" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 69.23% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (proper) | 30.77% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "barracuda": great barracuda ♦ S barracuda ♦ Sphyraena barracuda. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "barracuda": ex-barracuda. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "barracuda"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chamorro | alu. (various references) | |
Danish | stor barracuda (great barracuda), europæisk barracuda (spet). (various references) | |
Dutch | barracuda (great barracuda), zeetijger (great barracuda), zeesnoek (great barracuda), Middellandsezee-barracuda, Middellandse-Zeebarracuda (spet), grote barracuda (great barracuda). (various references) | |
Finnish | barrakuda (great barracuda), pikkubarrakuda. (various references) | |
French | brochet de mer, brisure, barracuda européen, barracuda atlantique (great barracuda), barracuda (great barracuda), bécune (great barracuda), spet, \GBA (great barracuda). (various references) | |
German | barrakuda, pfeilhecht, Mittelmeer-Pfeilhecht (spet), Mittelmeer-Barrakuda (spet), Atlantischer Pfeilhecht (great barracuda), Atlantischer Barrakuda (great barracuda). (various references) | |
Greek | λούτσος (pike). (various references) | |
Hungarian | barrakuda hal, barracuda hal. (various references) | |
Italian | barracuda maggiore (great barracuda), barracuda (spet), luccio marino (spet), luccio di mare (spet). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 梭魚 , 梭子魚 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かます. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arracudabay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bicuda gigante (great barracuda), bicuda (spet), barracuda gigante (great barracuda), barracuda (spet). (various references) | |
Russian | морская щука (sea-pike), барракуда. (various references) | |
Spanish | barracuda (California barracuda, Pacific barracuda, spet). (various references) | |
Swedish | barrakuda, barracuda, jättebarrakuda (great barracuda). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | морська щука (garfish), баракуда. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Sphyraena barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda (Walbaum), Sphyraena sphyraena, Sphyraena sphyraena (Linnaeus), Sphyraenidae. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "barracuda": barracudas. (additional references) | |
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"Barracuda" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baracaldo, baraccuda, baracuda, Barakhda, Barcud, Barracouta, Barraud, barrucuda, Boraceva. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-c-d-r-r-u" | |
-3 letters: curara, durbar. | |
-4 letters: abaca, aurar, crura, durra, radar. | |
-5 letters: aura, bard, baud, brad, bura, burd, burr, carb, card, carr, crab, crud, curb, curd, curr, darb, daub, drab, drub, dura, durr. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-b-c-d-r-r-u" | |
+1 letter: barracudas. | |
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