pista
Spanish, noun
pista is spelled P-I-S-T-A (5 letters) and appears 35 times per million words in written Spanish, the 2,389th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pista is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “track, course, trail” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, pistá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of pistar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Rastro de los animales o personas al ir de un lugar a otro”.
What does pista mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetrack, course, trail
- 2
femininetrack (song)
- 3
femininerunway
- 4
femininelane
- 5
Spainfemininecourt (field on which tennis, basketball, handball, badminton, etc is played)
pista de baloncesto
- 6
feminineclue, fingerprint
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of pistar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Rastro de los animales o personas al ir de un lugar a otro. 2. Elemento (físico o mental), información o deducción que se usa para tratar de llegar a un lado o descifrar una incógnita. 3. Calle de un campo aéreo, por donde los aviones carretean, aterrizan o despegan. 4. Calle de un campo de carreras o otro deporte, por donde los automóviles, personas, caballos, galgos, etc. corren.
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 pista
- pistas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pista
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pista in Spanish?
pista appears 35 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).