deter
The verdict
“deter” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #5,519. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,519
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - proceder à detenção; prender; reter à força
Corpus desk
Index PT-deter · deter · Portuguese
deter · rank #5,519 · 7 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,519
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH devagar
Nearest frequency peer: devagar (+1 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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “deter”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- curtir
curtir
94,487 corpus weight
- demissão
demissão
94,484 corpus weight
- deter
deter
94,482 corpus weight
- devagar
devagar
94,481 corpus weight
- diagnóstico
diagnóstico
94,480 corpus weight
- diploma
diploma
94,479 corpus weight
What this shows “deter” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deter |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “deter”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around deter, averb. Corpus frequency is #5,519 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for deter, with forms such as "ddeter", "deetr", and "deterr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "deve", "doer", "dote", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 deter, spelled D-E-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1proceder à detenção; prender; reter à força
- 2fazer parar, suspender a progressão de
- 3ter em seu poder, possuir, ser detentor de
- 4reprimir-se, conter-se
- 5parar, travar, suspender a progressão
- 6demorar-se, retardar-se
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how deter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A polícia deteve o meliante.
Deteve o automóvel e deixou o petiz atravessar a rua.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddeter
- deetr
- deterr
- detre
- detter
- dteer
- edter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of deter - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).