deteção
The verdict
“deteção” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #66,129 among 2,399 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,129
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,399
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ato de detetar
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deteção |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “deteção” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
deteção is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #66,129 among 2,399 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ato de detetar".
No generated misspelling entries exist for deteção in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 deteção, spelled D-E-T-E-Ç-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1ato de detetar
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.
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Using “deteção”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is D-E-T-E-Ç-Ã-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.