pitan
[ˈpit̪ãn]
The verdict
“pitan” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #84,229 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,229
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de pitar o de pitarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pitan · pitan · Spanish
pitan · rank #84,229 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,229
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH picks
Nearest frequency peer: picks (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “pitan”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- pestañeo
pestañeo
15,777 corpus weight
- petanca
petanca
15,776 corpus weight
- picks
picks
15,773 corpus weight
- pitan
pitan
15,772 corpus weight
- planned
planned
15,770 corpus weight
- plasmando
plasmando
15,767 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “pitan” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pitan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈpit̪ãn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “pitan” en español
Rare enough to double-check
pitan is uncommon Spanish at frequency #84,229 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈpit̪ãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de pitar o de pitarse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pitan in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is pitan, spelled P-I-T-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de pitar o de pitarse.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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