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pisan

noun

pisan is a noun meaning “Alternative form of pisane” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-I-S-A-N, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pisan is pisans.

What does pisan mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of pisane.

adjective

as Pisan
  1. 1

    Of, from or relating to the city of Pisa or surrounding province, Tuscany, Italy.

noun

as Pisan
  1. 1

    A native or inhabitant of the city of Pisa or surrounding province, Tuscany, Italy.

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

Forms of pisan

  • pisans plural

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

How common is pisan?

Pisan appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th 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).

Pisan in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpisan, pisane (of or from Pisa), Pisan, Pisane (native or inhabitant of Pisa)

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.

Where does pisan come from?

From Pisa + -an.

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