retardataire
\ʁə.taʁ.da.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“retardataire” is uncommon French (frequency #70,164 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,164
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui arrive en retard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retardataire · retardataire · French
retardataire · rank #70,164 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,164
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH repérez
Nearest frequency peer: repérez (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « retardataire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rentrerais
rentrerais
29,840 corpus weight
- reposa
reposa
29,839 corpus weight
- repérez
repérez
29,838 corpus weight
- retardataire
retardataire
29,837 corpus weight
- revisités
revisités
29,836 corpus weight
- rik
rik
29,835 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retardataire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retardataire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁə.taʁ.da.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #70,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retardataire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retardataire is uncommon French at frequency #70,164 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁə.taʁ.da.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for retardataire, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is retardataire, spelled R-E-T-A-R-D-A-T-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui arrive en retard.
- 2Dépassé, désuet, obsolète, en retard sur l'évolution des goûts, des techniques ou des mœurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how retardataire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une semaine, le ciel se désencotonne ; mais parfois, lorsque transparaît faiblement dans les brumes un soleil exténué, quelques flocons vagabondent encore, de ci, de là, retardataires ou précurseurs.
Car, des quatre arrondissements, le plus prolifique, celui de Guingamp, est assurément le plus retardataire, celui où, dans beaucoup de villages, les mœurs primitives de la vieille Bretagne se sont le plus conservées, celui où les humains végètent encore près de la nature.
This word in other languages
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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