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pilota

Portuguese, noun

pilota is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “exhaustion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a female equivalent of piloto (“pilot”). With an accent, pilôta is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “condutora (aquela que guia um veículo)”.

What does pilota mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineexhaustion

  2. 2

    feminineloss

  3. 3

    femininedefeat

  4. 4

    femininecastigation, reprimand

noun

  1. 1

    femininefemale equivalent of piloto (“pilot”)

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular present indicative

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

noun

as pilôta
  1. 1

    femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of pilota

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. condutora (aquela que guia um veículo) 2. estafa 3. cansaço resultante de caminhada 4. prejuízo

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of pilota

  • pilotas plural
  • pilôtas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is pilota in Portuguese?

pilota appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).