retardés

\ʁə.taʁ.de\

/\ʁə.taʁ.de\/ adj

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The verdict

“retardés” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,506. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#39,506
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
16
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de retardé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-retardes · retardés · French

retardés · rank #39,506 · 13 variants · 16 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #39,506
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH retable

Nearest frequency peer: retable (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « retardés »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « retardés » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

retardés vs retards
88% similar
retardés vs retirés
75% similar
retardés vs retirées
63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for retardés
PropertyValue
Headwordretardés
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ʁə.taʁ.de\
Letters8
Frequency rank#39,506
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retardés »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).retardésse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « retable » (#39,505), « retournons » (#39,507), « restrictif » (#39,504). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « retardés » est au #39,506. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around retardés (IPA \ʁə.taʁ.de\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,506 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de retardé.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for retardés, with forms such as "ertardés", "reatrdés", and "retadrés". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "retards", "retirés", "retirées", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is retardés, spelled R-E-T-A-R-D-É-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de retardé.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ertardés
  • reatrdés
  • retadrés
  • retarddés
  • retardes
  • retardsé
  • retardéss
  • retarrdés
  • retaréds
  • retradés
  • rettardés
  • rretardés
  • rteardés

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retardés - 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.

ertardés2reatrdés2retadrés2retarddés1retardes1retardsé2retardéss1retarrdés1
Edit distance from "retardés"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "retardés"?
"retardés" is spelled R-E-T-A-R-D-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.taʁ.de\.
What does "retardés" mean?
As an adjective, "retardés" means: Masculin pluriel de retardé.
What words are commonly confused with "retardés"?
"retardés" is commonly confused with "retards", "retirés", "retirées". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "retardés"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "retardés" is \ʁə.taʁ.de\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "retardés" come from?
"retardés" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "retardés", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

revisité#39,508Renaudot#39,500reléguée#39,499relisant#39,498

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

repartira13 variantsrectitude13 variantsrajoutant13 variantssalariées13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list