pitta

1. 1.

   any bird of the genus Pitta; brilliantly colored chiefly terrestrial birds with short wings and tail and stout bills

   Broadertyrannid

Other forms of pitta

plural

pittas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pitta

What does pitta mean?

pitta means "any bird of the genus Pitta; brilliantly colored chiefly terrestrial birds with short wings and tail and stout bills".

How many syllables are in pitta?

pitta has 2 syllables and divides as pit-ta under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.