detectar
Portuguese, verb/de.te.kiˈta(ʁ)/
detectar is spelled D-E-T-E-C-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears 6.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 10,139th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Detectar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to detect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “revelar”.
What does detectar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to detect
- 2
to reveal
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. revelar 2. tornar perceptível 3. empregar detector
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of detectar
- detecto first-person present singular
- detectei first-person preterite singular
- detectado participle past
- detectares infinitive second-person singular
- detectarmos first-person infinitive plural
- detectardes infinitive plural second-person
- detectarem infinitive plural third-person
- detectando gerund
- detectados masculine participle past
- detectada feminine participle past
- detectadas feminine participle past
- detectas indicative present second-person
- detecta indicative present singular
- detectamos first-person indicative plural
- detectais indicative plural present
- detectam indicative plural present
- detectava first-person imperfect indicative
- detectavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce detectar?
- Brazil /de.te.kiˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [de.te.kiˈta(h)]
- Brazil /de.tekˈta(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to detectar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is detectar in Portuguese?
detectar appears 6.5 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).