deleção

noun

The verdict

“deleção” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #81,972 among 2,399 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#81,972
frequency rank, Portuguese
2,399
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - mutação caracterizada pela remoção de um ou mais nucleotídeos de um gene

Key facts for deleção
PropertyValue
Headworddeleção
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#81,972
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “deleção” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). deleção lands here:

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

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

deleção is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #81,972 among 2,399 “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

  1. 1
    mutação caracterizada pela remoção de um ou mais nucleotídeos de um gene
  2. 2
    mutação caracterizada pela remoção de um segmento de um cromossomo
  3. 3
    supressão, apagamento definitivo
  4. 4
    supressão 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

Synonyms

deletamentodeletamento

This word in other languages

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 "deleção"?
"deleção" is spelled D-E-L-E-Ç-Ã-O.
What does "deleção" mean?
As a noun, "deleção" means: mutação caracterizada pela remoção de um ou mais nucleotídeos de um gene
What language does "deleção" come from?
"deleção" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Using “deleção”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is D-E-L-E-Ç-Ã-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

Other uncommon Portuguese words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list