pitido
[piˈt̪ið̞o]
The verdict
“pitido” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #54,439 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,439
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sonido muy agudo y generalmente de corta duración, especialmente el producido por un pito al ser soplado.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pitido · pitido · Spanish
pitido · rank #54,439 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,439
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pisen
Nearest frequency peer: pisen (-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 “pitido”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- piraña
piraña
45,564 corpus weight
- pisen
pisen
45,563 corpus weight
- pitido
pitido
45,562 corpus weight
- pocilga
pocilga
45,559 corpus weight
- poemarios
poemarios
45,558 corpus weight
- poll
poll
45,557 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “pitido” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pitido |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [piˈt̪ið̞o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “pitido” en español
Rare enough to double-check
pitido is uncommon Spanish at frequency #54,439 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [piˈt̪ið̞o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sonido muy agudo y generalmente de corta duración, especialmente el producido por un pito al ser soplado.".
pitido doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 pitido, spelled P-I-T-I-D-O.
Definition
- 1Sonido muy agudo y generalmente de corta duración, especialmente el producido por un pito al ser soplado.
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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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