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pitío

Spanish, noun/piˈtio/

pitío is spelled P-I-T-Í-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 59 million words in written Spanish, the 268,459th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pitío is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “flicker (bird)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does pitío mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineflicker (bird)

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Perteneciente al dios Apolo, considerado como vencedor de la serpiente Pitón. 2. Dícese más ordinariamente de ciertos juegos o certámenes que se celebraban en Delfos en honra de este dios.

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 pitío

  • pitíos plural
  • pitios plural
  • pitia feminine
  • pitias feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce pitío?

  • /piˈtio/
  • [piˈt̪i.o]
  • [ˈpit̪jo]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is pitío in Spanish?

pitío appears about once in every 59 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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