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punto

Spanish, noun

punto is spelled P-U-N-T-O (5 letters) and appears 316 times per million words in written Spanish, the 249th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Punto is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “point (specific spot, location, or place)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of puntar. With an accent, puntó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of puntar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Porción más pequeña de un espacio, sin dimensión”.

What does punto mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinepoint (specific spot, location, or place)

  2. 2

    masculinepoint (unit of scoring)

    Tienes cinco puntos.

  3. 3

    masculinepoint (full stop or period)

  4. 4

    masculinepoint (decimal mark)

  5. 5

    masculinestitch (single pass of a needle in sewing or surgery suture)

  6. 6

    masculinebombshell (great surprise or shock)

  7. 7

    masculinepunto, Spanish point (traditional small unit of length, equivalent to about 0.16 mm)

interjection

  1. 1

    period, end of story

  2. 2

    that's it!

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of puntar

verb

as puntó
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of puntar

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Porción más pequeña de un espacio, sin dimensión. 2. Dibujo, mancha, seña o figura pequeña redonda que se percibe en una superficie. 3. Signo de puntuación al final de una frases o después de una abreviatura. 4. Signo pequeño y redondo que va sobre las letras "i" (i latina) y "j" (jota).

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 punto

  • puntos plural
  • puntillo diminutive
  • puntito diminutive
  • puento alternative dialectal
  • ¡punto! canonical

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

English words that translate to punto

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is punto in Spanish?

punto appears 316 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).

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