deleção
The verdict
“deleção” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #81,972 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,972
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mutação caracterizada pela remoção de um ou mais nucleotídeos de um gene
Corpus desk
Index PT-delecao · deleção · Portuguese
deleção · rank #81,972 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,972
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH derrapar
Nearest frequency peer: derrapar (+4 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 “deleção”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- confidência
confidência
18,064 corpus weight
- corredeira
corredeira
18,053 corpus weight
- criterioso
criterioso
18,047 corpus weight
- cronicamente
cronicamente
18,046 corpus weight
- deleção
deleção
18,029 corpus weight
- derrapar
derrapar
18,025 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “deleção” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deleção |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “deleção” em português
Rare enough to double-check
deleção is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #81,972 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
deleção doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 deleção, spelled D-E-L-E-Ç-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1mutação caracterizada pela remoção de um ou mais nucleotídeos de um gene
- 2mutação caracterizada pela remoção de um segmento de um cromossomo
- 3supressão, apagamento definitivo
- 4supressão lógica de indexação de arquivo em um sistema de arquivos por modificação em parte dos dados de um dos blocos no qual ele está alocado
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how deleção appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Se essa sua graça resultou na deleção de algum dos meus arquivos, se prepara para sofrer muito nesse seu couro.
Synonyms
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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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