deteção

noun

The verdict

“deteção” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #66,129 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#66,129
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,193
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ato de detetar

Corpus desk

Index PT-detecao · deteção · Portuguese

deteção · rank #66,129 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #66,129
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,193
  • PHOTO-FINISH desatento

Nearest frequency peer: desatento (-8 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 “deteção”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “deteção” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for deteção
PropertyValue
Headworddeteção
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#66,129
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “deteção” em português

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).deteçãocai nesta cauda de raridade:

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

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “desatento” (#66,121), “disforme” (#66,137), “dento” (#66,118). Entre 1,193 lemas com “D”, “deteção” fica em #66,129. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

deteção is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #66,129 among 1,193 “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

  1. 1
    ato de detetar

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how deteção appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. «A deteção precoce do cancro aumenta significativamente as hipóteses de cura e sucesso do tratamento.»

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 "deteção"?
"deteção" is spelled D-E-T-E-Ç-Ã-O.
What does "deteção" mean?
As a noun, "deteção" means: ato de detetar
What language does "deteção" come from?
"deteção" 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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "deteção", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list