retardado
The verdict
“retardado” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #15,913. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,913
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - atrasado
Corpus desk
Index PT-retardado · retardado · Portuguese
retardado · rank #15,913 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,913
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH retaliação
Nearest frequency peer: retaliação (-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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “retardado”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- regulador
regulador
84,093 corpus weight
- requerimento
requerimento
84,091 corpus weight
- retaliação
retaliação
84,089 corpus weight
- retardado
retardado
84,088 corpus weight
- retrocesso
retrocesso
84,087 corpus weight
- revisar
revisar
84,086 corpus weight
What this shows “retardado” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retardado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “retardado”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around retardado, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,913 among 963 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for retardado, with forms such as "ertardado", "reatrdado", and "retadrado". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "retirado", "retardar", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is retardado, spelled R-E-T-A-R-D-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1atrasado
- 2diz-se do indivíduo cujo desenvolvimento mental está abaixo do normal
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how retardado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A síndrome é responsável por uma série de defeitos de nascimento, como falha na medula óssea, crescimento retardado e predisposição a câncer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertardado
- reatrdado
- retadrado
- retaraddo
- retardaddo
- retardaod
- retarddado
- retarddao
- retarrdado
- retradado
- rettardado
- rretardado
- rteardado
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retardado - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "retardado", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).