retardamento
The verdict
“retardamento” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #63,148 among 963 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,148
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ato ou efeito de retardar
Corpus desk
Index PT-retardamento · retardamento · Portuguese
retardamento · rank #63,148 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,148
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH ressonar
Nearest frequency peer: ressonar (-2 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “retardamento”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- rejuvenescer
rejuvenescer
36,864 corpus weight
- ressonar
ressonar
36,855 corpus weight
- retardamento
retardamento
36,853 corpus weight
- sarda
sarda
36,837 corpus weight
- seletivamen…
seletivamente
36,830 corpus weight
- slaves
slaves
36,821 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “retardamento” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retardamento |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #63,148 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “retardamento” em português
Rare enough to double-check
retardamento is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #63,148 among 963 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for retardamento, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is retardamento, spelled R-E-T-A-R-D-A-M-E-N-T-O.
Definition
- 1ato ou efeito de retardar
- 2condição daquele que tem um problema de desenvolvimento mental
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how retardamento appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O ministro reconheceu que no último trimestre de 2007 o ciclo hidrológico foi desfavorável e houve retardamento das chuvas.
A descoberta, publicada no jornal científico Nature Neuroscience, também pode ajudar cientistas a entender o que causa o retardamento mental observado em pacientes portadores da síndrome.
Synonyms
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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