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pipit

/ˈpɪpɪt/noun

pipit is spelled P-I-P-I-T: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pipit means “Any of various small passerine birds, mainly from the genus Anthus, that are often drab, ground feeding insectivores of open country” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pipit is pipits.

How many letters and syllables are in pipit?

Letters5: P-I-P-I-T
In writingabout once in every 13 million words; the 110,368th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is pipit?

Pipit appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce pipit?

  • /ˈpɪpɪt/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-pipit.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of pipit

  • pipits plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does pipit mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Any of various small passerine birds, mainly from the genus Anthus, that are often drab, ground feeding insectivores of open country.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Pipit in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense passerine bird from the genus Anthus:

LanguageWords
Frenchpipit
GermanPieper
Portuguesepetinha, caminheiro, corredeira
Spanishbisbita

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

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