reticente
/Rɨ.ti.ˈsẽ.tɨ/
The verdict
“reticente” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #69,152 among 963 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,152
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - em que há ou que age com reticência; vacilante, hesitante
Corpus desk
Index PT-reticente · reticente · Portuguese
reticente · rank #69,152 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,152
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH remendar
Nearest frequency peer: remendar (-9 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 “reticente”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- quickly
quickly
30,871 corpus weight
- recontar
recontar
30,865 corpus weight
- remendar
remendar
30,858 corpus weight
- reticente
reticente
30,849 corpus weight
- rutura
rutura
30,830 corpus weight
- rédea
rédea
30,828 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “reticente” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reticente |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /Rɨ.ti.ˈsẽ.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “reticente” em português
Rare enough to double-check
reticente is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #69,152 among 963 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /Rɨ.ti.ˈsẽ.tɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "em que há ou que age com reticência; vacilante, hesitante".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for reticente, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is reticente, spelled R-E-T-I-C-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1em que há ou que age com reticência; vacilante, hesitante
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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