retardamento

noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “retardamento” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for retardamento
PropertyValue
Headwordretardamento
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters12
Frequency rank#63,148
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “retardamento” em português

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).retardamentocai nesta cauda de raridade:

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

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “ressonar” (#63,146), “rejuvenescer” (#63,137), “sarda” (#63,164). Entre 963 lemas com “R”, “retardamento” fica em #63,148. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    ato ou efeito de retardar
  2. 2
    condição daquele que tem um problema de desenvolvimento mental

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how retardamento appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. O ministro reconheceu que no último trimestre de 2007 o ciclo hidrológico foi desfavorável e houve retardamento das chuvas.
  2. 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

retardação

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "retardamento"?
"retardamento" is spelled R-E-T-A-R-D-A-M-E-N-T-O.
What does "retardamento" mean?
As a noun, "retardamento" means: ato ou efeito de retardar
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list