pautar
Spanish, verb/pauˈtaɾ/
pautar is spelled P-A-U-T-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish, the 112,257th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pautar is a Spanish verb meaning “to trace lines” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Marcar una hoja con la pauta”.
What does pautar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to trace lines
- 2
to regulate, to lay down rules
- 3
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Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Marcar una hoja con la pauta. 2. Determinar las pautas que guiarán los procedimientos para llevar a cabo una acción.
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 pautar
- pauto first-person present singular
- pauté first-person preterite singular
- pautado participle past
- pautando gerund
- pautada feminine participle past
- pautados masculine participle past
- pautadas feminine participle past
- pautas indicative informal present
- pautás indicative informal present
- pauta indicative present singular
- pautamos first-person indicative plural
- pautáis indicative plural present
- pautan indicative plural present
- pautaba first-person imperfect indicative
- pautabas imperfect indicative second-person
- pautábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- pautabais imperfect indicative plural
- pautaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pautar?
- /pauˈtaɾ/
- [pau̯ˈt̪aɾ]
- [pawˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pautar in Spanish?
pautar appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).