pituto

/[piˈt̪ut̪o]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

pituto is aSpanishnoun. It means: Porción alargada y sobresaliente de un objeto, como las espitas de ciertos recipientes. Pronounced [piˈt̪ut̪o].

Key facts for pituto
PropertyValue
Headwordpituto
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[piˈt̪ut̪o]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

pituto is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for pituto is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [piˈt̪ut̪o]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pituto in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 pituto, spelled P-I-T-U-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Porción alargada y sobresaliente de un objeto, como las espitas de ciertos recipientes.
  2. 2
    Soporte para estantes de madera, de composición metálica, en ocasiones de color bronceado.
  3. 3
    Por extensión, cualquier objeto pequeño alargado de uso no identificado.
  4. 4
    Trabajo esporádico e informal.
  5. 5
    Relación con alguien influyente que se utiliza para obtener una ventaja, en particular un trabajo, al margen de los méritos propios.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pituto"?
"pituto" is spelled P-I-T-U-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is [piˈt̪ut̪o].
What does "pituto" mean?
As a noun, "pituto" means: Porción alargada y sobresaliente de un objeto, como las espitas de ciertos recipientes.
How do you pronounce "pituto"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pituto" is [piˈt̪ut̪o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pituto" come from?
"pituto" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.