pizca
Spanish, noun
pizca is spelled P-I-Z-C-A (5 letters) and appears 3.1 times per million words in written Spanish, the 16,777th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pizca is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “a little bit, ounce, iota, smidgeon, modicum, trace, lick” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of pizcar. With an accent, pizcá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of pizcar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Parte muy escasa de una cosa, como la que se podría coger con las puntas de los dedos índice y pulgar”.
What does pizca mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininea little bit, ounce, iota, smidgeon, modicum, trace, lick
Pero no existe ni una pizca de evidencia en absoluto.
- 2
femininepinch, dash (e.g., a pinch of salt, a dash of vanilla extract)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of pizcar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Parte muy escasa de una cosa, como la que se podría coger con las puntas de los dedos índice y pulgar.
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 pizca
- pizcas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pizca
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pizca in Spanish?
pizca appears 3.1 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).