retardent
\ʁə.taʁd\
The verdict
“retardent” is uncommon French (frequency #52,954 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,954
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de retarder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retardent · retardent · French
retardent · rank #52,954 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,954
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ressortant
Nearest frequency peer: ressortant (-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 « retardent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rescapée
rescapée
47,050 corpus weight
- ressemblé
ressemblé
47,049 corpus weight
- ressortant
ressortant
47,048 corpus weight
- retardent
retardent
47,047 corpus weight
- retente
retente
47,046 corpus weight
- retournerait
retournerait
47,045 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retardent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retardent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.taʁd\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retardent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retardent is uncommon French at frequency #52,954 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.taʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for retardent in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is retardent, spelled R-E-T-A-R-D-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de retarder.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de retarder.
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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