tardío
[t̪aɾˈð̞io]
The verdict
“tardío” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #18,700. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,700
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que se ejecuta o sucede con posterioridad a lo esperado.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tardio · tardío · Spanish
tardío · rank #18,700 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,700
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH tardaron
Nearest frequency peer: tardaron (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “tardío”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Taberna
Taberna
81,304 corpus weight
- tara
tara
81,303 corpus weight
- tardaron
tardaron
81,302 corpus weight
- tardío
tardío
81,301 corpus weight
- timón
timón
81,300 corpus weight
- tocará
tocará
81,299 corpus weight
What this shows “tardío” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tardío |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [t̪aɾˈð̞io] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “tardío”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around tardío (IPA [t̪aɾˈð̞io]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,700 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for tardío, with forms such as "atrdío", "tadrío", and "tarddío". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "trío", "taro", "tardo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is tardío, spelled T-A-R-D-Í-O.
Definition
- 1Que se ejecuta o sucede con posterioridad a lo esperado.
- 2Referido a un fruto o a una cosecha, que tarda en estar listo para su recogida o consumo.
- 3Referido a una lengua muerta, época o corriente de pensamiento en su última etapa.
- 4Referido a una persona actúa con lentitud.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tardío appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cuando escribí mi respuesta, aún vivía. Ahora, este artículo puede considerarse un tardío homenaje a su memoria
Sabido es también que en las provincias del norte los frutos son más tardíos que en las demás, y que por esta razón terminan muchos arrendamientos, o por San Martín, o al fin del año
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atrdío
- tadrío
- tarddío
- tardoí
- tarrdío
- ttardío
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tardío - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tardío", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).