detenção
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,756
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
detenção is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ato de deter Pronounced /dɨ.tẽ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. It ranks #7,756 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with detento and detonação.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | detenção |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɨ.tẽ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,756 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for detenção is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɨ.tẽ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,756 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for detenção, with forms such as "ddetenção", "deetnção", and "detennção". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "detento", "detonação", "decepção", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is detenção, spelled D-E-T-E-N-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ato de deter
- 2que sofre a dentenção, que está detido
- 3prisão preventiva, temporária, passageira
- 4posse de algo sem autorização, ilegal
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddetenção,deetnção,detennção,detenãço,detençoã,deteçnão,detneção,dettenção,dteenção,edtenção
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for detenção
Misspelling Variants of "detenção"
Frequency rank: #7,756 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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