reticência
/Rɨ.ti.ˈsẽ.sjɐ/
The verdict
“reticência” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - omissão voluntária do que se devia ou podia dizer
Corpus desk
Index PT-reticencia · reticência · Portuguese
reticência · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" 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 | reticência |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /Rɨ.ti.ˈsẽ.sjɐ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “reticência” em português
Rare enough to double-check
reticência is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /Rɨ.ti.ˈsẽ.sjɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for reticência in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 reticência, spelled R-E-T-I-C-Ê-N-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1omissão voluntária do que se devia ou podia dizer
- 2figura em que se deixa subentendido por meio de interrupções o que se quer dizer; aposiopese
- 3a própria coisa omitida
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how reticência appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"um comentário pleno de reticência"
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.