im
The verdict
“im” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,077) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,077
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sou;
Corpus desk
Index PT-im · im · Portuguese
im · rank #12,077 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,077
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH hostil
Nearest frequency peer: hostil (-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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “im”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- gestor
gestor
87,930 corpus weight
- golden
golden
87,929 corpus weight
- handebol
handebol
87,926 corpus weight
- hostil
hostil
87,925 corpus weight
- im
im
87,924 corpus weight
- inconvenien…
inconveniente
87,919 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “im” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | im |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #12,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “im”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for im is neighbouring look-alikes ("ir", "in", …), not just typos; it is averb. Frequency #12,077 among 938 “I” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for im in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ir", "in", "is", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is im, spelled I-M.
Definition
- 1sou;
- 2primeira pessoa do singular do presente do verbo bûn/بوون:
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how im appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nota: Esta forma é usada após palavras terminadas em consoante. Para outros casos usa
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.