pitonisa

/[pit̪oˈnisa]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#87,107

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

pitonisa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Sacerdotisa que mediante el trance, sentada en el trípode, comunicaba los augurios que daba Apolo en el templo de Delfos. Pronounced [pit̪oˈnisa].

Key facts for pitonisa
PropertyValue
Headwordpitonisa
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[pit̪oˈnisa]
Letters8
Frequency rank#87,107
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of pitonisa in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for pitonisa is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pit̪oˈnisa]. Corpus data places it at rank #87,107 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for pitonisa in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 pitonisa, spelled P-I-T-O-N-I-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sacerdotisa que mediante el trance, sentada en el trípode, comunicaba los augurios que daba Apolo en el templo de Delfos.
  2. 2
    Mujer con el don de la adivinación.
  3. 3
    Encantadora, hechicera. Úsase en la traducción de algunos pasajes de la Biblia.

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This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #87,107 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pitonisa"?
"pitonisa" is spelled P-I-T-O-N-I-S-A. The IPA pronunciation is [pit̪oˈnisa].
What does "pitonisa" mean?
As a noun, "pitonisa" means: Sacerdotisa que mediante el trance, sentada en el trípode, comunicaba los augurios que daba Apolo en el templo de Delfos.
How do you pronounce "pitonisa"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pitonisa" is [pit̪oˈnisa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pitonisa" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.