detento
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,975
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
detento is aPortuguesenoun. It means: pessoa privada de liberdade por decisão judicial; preso, recluso, encarcerado, presidiário Often confused with detentor and desenho.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | detento |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #25,975 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for detento is 7 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #25,975 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for detento, with forms such as "ddetento", "deetnto", and "detennto". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "detentor", "desenho", "deserto", 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 detento, spelled D-E-T-E-N-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1pessoa privada de liberdade por decisão judicial; preso, recluso, encarcerado, presidiário
- 2indivíduo que se encontra em estabelecimento prisional; interno
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddetento,deetnto,detennto,detenot,detentto,detetno,detneto,dettento,dteento,edtento
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "detento"
Frequency rank: #25,975 in Portuguese
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