deter
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,519
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
deter is aPortugueseverb. It means: proceder à detenção; prender; reter à força It ranks #5,519 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with deve and doer.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for deter is 5 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #5,519 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for deter, with forms such as "ddeter", "deetr", and "deterr". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "deve", "doer", "dote", 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 deter, spelled D-E-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddeter,deetr,deterr,detre,detter,dteer,edter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for deter
Misspelling Variants of "deter"
Frequency rank: #5,519 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our Portuguese index: