deteção
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
- deglutição
deglutição
33,886 corpus weight
- dento
dento
33,883 corpus weight
- desatento
desatento
33,880 corpus weight
- deteção
deteção
33,872 corpus weight
- disforme
disforme
33,864 corpus weight
- duce
duce
33,856 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “deteção” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cauda longa: rank de “deteção” em português
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
- 1ato de detetar
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how deteção appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«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.
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