also: ディティクティブ · デテクティブ
A straightforward loanword from English, used in Japanese to refer to a detective, often in the context of fiction, police work, or private investigation.
He plays an active role as a detective in the novel.
The protagonist of that movie is a private detective.
Most common katakana spelling for the English loanword 'detective'.
Alternate spelling reflecting a slightly different approximation of the English pronunciation.
Less common variant; may appear in older texts or as a non-standard transcription.
Borrowed from English 'detective'. The variant spellings reflect different attempts to transcribe the English pronunciation into katakana.