retraso

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for retraso is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [reˈt̪ɾaso]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,113 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de retrasar.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for retraso, with forms such as "ertraso", "rertaso", and "retarso". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "retro", "retrato", "retratos", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is retraso, spelled R-E-T-R-A-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.