tardiveté
The verdict
“tardiveté” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est tardif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tardivete · tardiveté · French
tardiveté · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tardiveté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
tardiveté is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for tardiveté in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tardiveté, spelled T-A-R-D-I-V-E-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est tardif.
- 2Croissance tardive, développement tardif. Il se dit en parlant des fleurs, des fruits et des plantes qui viennent après le temps ordinaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tardiveté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La tardiveté de la protestation est appréciée au regard de sa date de réception et non du cachet de la Poste apposé sur celle-ci lors de son envoi.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.