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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
pitta is a noun meaning "any bird of the genus Pitta; brilliantly colored chiefly terrestrial birds with short wings and tail and stout bills". It carries one recorded sense.
any bird of the genus Pitta; brilliantly colored chiefly terrestrial birds with short wings and tail and stout bills
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pitta come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.