ma
/mɐ/
The verdict
“ma” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,420) as a contraction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,420
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - contração do pronome pessoal do caso oblíquo me e a
Corpus desk
Index PT-ma · ma · Portuguese
ma · rank #3,420 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,420
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH lição
Nearest frequency peer: lição (-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 “ma”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- junta
junta
96,584 corpus weight
- lady
lady
96,583 corpus weight
- lição
lição
96,582 corpus weight
- ma
ma
96,581 corpus weight
- moto
moto
96,579 corpus weight
- ovos
ovos
96,576 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ma” 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 | ma |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Contraction |
| IPA | /mɐ/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #3,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ma”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ma is neighbouring look-alikes ("me", "my", …), not just typos; it is acontraction pronounced /mɐ/. Frequency #3,420 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Gloss: "contração do pronome pessoal do caso oblíquo me e a".
ma doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "me", "my", "mi", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 ma, spelled M-A.
Definition
- 1contração do pronome pessoal do caso oblíquo me e a
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.