imi
/ˈi.mi/
The verdict
“imi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,938) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,938
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - terceira pessoa do singular do passado do indicativo do verbo imeä:
Corpus desk
Index PT-imi · imi · Portuguese
imi · rank #47,938 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,938
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH impenetrável
Nearest frequency peer: impenetrável (+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 “imi”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- guarida
guarida
52,083 corpus weight
- haber
haber
52,080 corpus weight
- imi
imi
52,063 corpus weight
- impenetrável
impenetrável
52,062 corpus weight
- imperioso
imperioso
52,061 corpus weight
- impetuoso
impetuoso
52,060 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “imi” 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 | imi |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈi.mi/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,938 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “imi”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for imi is neighbouring look-alikes ("ir", "in", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /ˈi.mi/. Frequency #47,938 among 938 “I” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for imi in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. 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's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is imi, spelled I-M-I.
Definition
- 1terceira pessoa do singular do passado do indicativo do verbo imeä:
- 2terceira pessoa do singular do passado do indicativo do verbo imeä:
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).