pista
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,414
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pista is aSpanishnoun. It means: Rastro de los animales o personas al ir de un lugar a otro. Pronounced [ˈpist̪a]. It ranks #2,414 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with pit and puta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pista |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpist̪a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,414 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pista is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpist̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,414 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for pista, with forms such as "ipsta", "pisat", and "pissta". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pit", "puta", "post", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is pista, spelled P-I-S-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rastro de los animales o personas al ir de un lugar a otro.
- 2Elemento (físico o mental), información o deducción que se usa para tratar de llegar a un lado o descifrar una incógnita.
- 3Calle de un campo aéreo, por donde los aviones carretean, aterrizan o despegan.
- 4Calle de un campo de carreras o otro deporte, por donde los automóviles, personas, caballos, galgos, etc. corren.
- 5Elemento de un disco o cinta de audio, que guarda la información sonora o visual.
- 6Por extensión, cada canción, melodía, discurso u otras formas de sonido o video de los discos o cintas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipsta,pisat,pissta,pistta,pitsa,ppista,psita
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pista
Misspelling Variants of "pista"
Frequency rank: #2,414 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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