pespunte
Spanish, noun
pespunte is spelled P-E-S-P-U-N-T-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written Spanish, the 176,328th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pespunte is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “backstitch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of pespuntar. With an accent, pespunté is a different word: “first-person singular preterite indicative of pespuntar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Labor de costura, con puntadas unidas, que se hacen volviendo la aguja hacia atrás después de cada punto…”.
What does pespunte mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebackstitch
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
first-person singular preterite indicative of pespuntar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Labor de costura, con puntadas unidas, que se hacen volviendo la aguja hacia atrás después de cada punto, para meter la hebra en el mismo sitio por donde pasó antes.
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 pespunte
- pespuntes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pespunte
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pespunte in Spanish?
pespunte appears about once in every 23 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).