retardées
\ʁə.taʁ.de\
The verdict
“retardées” is uncommon French (frequency #72,686 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,686
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de retardé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retardees · retardées · French
retardées · rank #72,686 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,686
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH restituant
Nearest frequency peer: restituant (-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 « retardées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- reproduisons
reproduisons
27,318 corpus weight
- requalifier
requalifier
27,317 corpus weight
- restituant
restituant
27,316 corpus weight
- retardées
retardées
27,315 corpus weight
- retiendrons
retiendrons
27,314 corpus weight
- Ripoll
Ripoll
27,312 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retardées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retardées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁə.taʁ.de\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retardées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retardées is uncommon French at frequency #72,686 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁə.taʁ.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de retardé.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for retardées, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is retardées, spelled R-E-T-A-R-D-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de retardé.
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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