punta
Spanish, noun
punta is spelled P-U-N-T-A (5 letters) and appears 40 times per million words in written Spanish, the 2,161st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Punta is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “tip, point, end” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of puntar. With an accent, puntá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of puntar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Extremo afilado de un objeto”.
What does punta mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetip, point, end
la punta del iceberg
- 2
femininepinch, bit (small amount)
adjective
- 1
peak
horas punta
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of puntar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Extremo afilado de un objeto. 2. Porción angosta de tierra que se interna en el mar. 3. Colilla residual de un cigarrillo de marihuana que contiene restos de cannabis. 4. En el truco, modalidad de juego cuando hay seis jugadores en donde se juegan tres manos con enfrentamientos de uno contra uno y luego se suma para cada equipo los puntos que obtuvo individualmente cada jugador.
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 punta
- puntas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to punta
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is punta in Spanish?
punta appears 40 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).