retardar
[ret̪aɾˈð̞aɾ]
The verdict
“retardar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #74,037 among 4,151 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,037
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hacer que algo ocurra después del tiempo debido o previsto.
Corpus desk
Index ES-retardar · retardar · Spanish
retardar · rank #74,037 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,037
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH resucitados
Nearest frequency peer: resucitados (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “retardar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- reposando
reposando
25,969 corpus weight
- reputada
reputada
25,967 corpus weight
- resucitados
resucitados
25,965 corpus weight
- retardar
retardar
25,964 corpus weight
- rezagada
rezagada
25,960 corpus weight
- rezuma
rezuma
25,959 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “retardar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retardar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ret̪aɾˈð̞aɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,037 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “retardar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
retardar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #74,037 among 4,151 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ret̪aɾˈð̞aɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hacer que algo ocurra después del tiempo debido o previsto.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for retardar, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is retardar, spelled R-E-T-A-R-D-A-R.
Definition
- 1Hacer que algo ocurra después del tiempo debido o previsto.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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