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Ananás is correct [0], but so is piña [1]. Piña, in its second meaning is synonymous to ananás.

Now, regarding usage, you're completely right. Nobody uses ananás; everybody says piña.

(Funny: When describing the ananás plant, the DRAE says about its fruit: "fruto grande en forma de piña".)

I've heard piña in SoCal, but once visited Costa Rica and heard ananas. Disclaimer: I don't speak Spanish.

I also heard in Costa Rica bananas referred to as patacones instead of platano, so I'm guessing there's a lot of regional-specific vocab at play here...

As far as I can tell, patacon (as well as platano) is plaintain - not banana.

Latino here, never heard "ananas" - siempre piña.

The Wikipedia entry for Ananás and Piña redirect to https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananas_comosus

The entry for Ananas at https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananas says it's used for the genus which includes pineapple.

The equivalent English word for the genus is Ananas - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananas .

Read the answers and you'll see the claim is based on cherry-picking.

I've never heard that word growing up in Puerto Rico. We used Piña

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