pita
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,543
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pita is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cordel de cáñamo. Pronounced [ˈpit̪a]. Often confused with PT and put.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pita |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpit̪a] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #23,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pita is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpit̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #23,543 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for pita, with forms such as "ipta", "piat", and "pitta". 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, "PT", "put", "pot", 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 pita, spelled P-I-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cordel de cáñamo.
- 2(Agave) Planta de la familia de las amarilidáceas, con hojas carnosas triangulares, espinosas en los bordes, de color verde claro, de 15 a 20 cm de anchura en la base y de hasta 3 m de longitud. Las flores son amarillentas, en ramilletes, sobre un bohordo central que tarda varios años en brotar pero puede crecer hasta los 6 o 7 m de altura. De las diversas especies se pueden obtener diferentes materias primas que sirven para elaborar diferentes infusiones y bebidas, como el pulque, tequila, sotol, bacanora, cocuy, aguamiel, sirope, etc.
- 3Hilo elaborado con la pita.
- 4(Aechmea) Cualquiera de las plantas del género Aechmea, familia Bromeliaceae, subfamilia Bromelioideae. Son epífitas o terrestres, acaulescentes o estoloníferas; plantas hermafroditas o dioicas. Hojas arrosetadas, márgenes armados. Escapo bien desarrollado, erecto o a veces nutante a péndulo; inflorescencias simples o compuestas y capitadas, digitadas o pinnadas, flores polísticas o dísticas; sépalos por lo general cortamente connados y asimétricos; pétalos libres, cada uno con un par de apéndices escuamiformes; estambres incluidos; ovario ínfero. El fruto es una baya; semillas sin apéndices.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipta,piat,pitta,ppita,ptia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pita
Misspelling Variants of "pita"
Frequency rank: #23,543 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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