pauta
Spanish, noun
pauta is spelled P-A-U-T-A (5 letters) and appears 4.2 times per million words in written Spanish, the 13,623rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pauta is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “ruler, rule” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of pautar. With an accent, pautá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of pautar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Instrumento o aparato para rayar el papel en que los niños aprenden a escribir”.
What does pauta mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineruler, rule
- 2
feminineguide, rule, pattern, model
- 3
feminineguideline, guiding principle
seguir las pautas
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of pautar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Instrumento o aparato para rayar el papel en que los niños aprenden a escribir. 2. Cada una de las rayas hechas con la pauta. 3. Cualquier instrumento o norma que sirve como guía o precepto para un determinado arte u oficio. 4. Espacio que se ofrece en cada uno de los medios de comunicación para que los particulares interesados puedan exhibir publicidad a cambio de una tarifa.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pauta
- pautas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pauta
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pauta in Spanish?
pauta appears 4.2 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).