retardatário

noun

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The verdict

“retardatário” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #94,191 among 963 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#94,191
frequency rank, Portuguese
963
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que está ou vem atrasado

Corpus desk

Index PT-retardatario · retardatário · Portuguese

retardatário · rank #94,191 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #94,191
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 963
  • PHOTO-FINISH reward

Nearest frequency peer: reward (+5 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 “retardatário”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for retardatário
PropertyValue
Headwordretardatário
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters12
Frequency rank#94,191
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “retardatário” em português

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.retardatáriocai nesta cauda de raridade:

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

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “reward” (#94,196), “radon” (#94,156), “Publius” (#94,148). Entre 963 lemas com “R”, “retardatário” fica em #94,191. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

retardatário is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #94,191 among 963 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for retardatário, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is retardatário, spelled R-E-T-A-R-D-A-T-Á-R-I-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    que está ou vem atrasado
  2. 2
    que chega tarde

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Consultou a internet dez vezes para certificar-se do horário do vestibular, com pavor de acontecer aquilo que sempre vemos na televisão: o portão fechado na cara do retardatário.

Synonyms

lanterninha

This word in other languages

straggler(English)

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 "retardatário"?
"retardatário" is spelled R-E-T-A-R-D-A-T-Á-R-I-O.
What does "retardatário" mean?
As a noun, "retardatário" means: que está ou vem atrasado
What language does "retardatário" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list