pitar
Spanish, verb/piˈtaɾ/
pitar is spelled P-I-T-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish, the 71,694th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pitar is a Spanish verb meaning “to whistle, buzz, beep, honk, puff” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Dar una pita, manifestar desaprobación mediante silbidos”.
What does pitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to whistle, buzz, beep, honk, puff
- 2
to referee, call (to make a decision as a referee or umpire)
El árbitro pitó falta
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dar una pita, manifestar desaprobación mediante silbidos. 2. Fumar. 3. Arbitrar un determinado partido de fútbol. 4. Dicho de un árbitro: durante un partido, señalar las incidencias, especialmente las faltas.
verb: 1. Hacer sonar el pito. 2. Dicho de alguna cosa: emitir un zumbido estridente similar al de un pito. 3. Decir pitadas o sandeces. 4. Dicho de alguna cosa: dar el rendimiento que se esperaba de ella.
verb: 1. Distribuir las pitanzas. 2. Pagar.
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 pitar
- pito first-person present singular
- pité first-person preterite singular
- pitado participle past
- pitando gerund
- pitada feminine participle past
- pitados masculine participle past
- pitadas feminine participle past
- pitas indicative informal present
- pitás indicative informal present
- pita indicative present singular
- pitamos first-person indicative plural
- pitáis indicative plural present
- pitan indicative plural present
- pitaba first-person imperfect indicative
- pitabas imperfect indicative second-person
- pitábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- pitabais imperfect indicative plural
- pitaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pitar?
- /piˈtaɾ/
- [piˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pitar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pitar in Spanish?
pitar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).