Poítat

Poítat is a nonstandard spelling variant of the Czech verb počítat, which means to count or to calculate. In standard Czech orthography, the correct form is počítat, with a háček over the c and an acute accent on the i.

The form poítat is not recognized as a proper standard spelling. It can appear in texts where diacritics are omitted, misread by optical character recognition (OCR), or produced by typographical errors. Because the intended word is počítat, occurrences of poítat do not represent a separate lexical meaning and are usually treated as misspellings or encoding artifacts.

In linguistic and language-processing contexts, poítat is typically noted as an erroneous variant to be corrected to počítat. Readers encountering poítat should consider the surrounding context and correct the word to its standard form to ensure clear communication. The existence of such nonstandard forms highlights the importance of proper diacritic handling in Czech typography and digital text processing.

See also: počítat, counting, counting-related terms in Czech.