mah
The verdict
“mah” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,420) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,420
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - usada para chamar ou deter alguém, ou para chamar sua atenção
Corpus desk
Index PT-mah · mah · Portuguese
mah · rank #29,420 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,420
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH malaio
Nearest frequency peer: malaio (+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 “mah”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- Lev
Lev
70,590 corpus weight
- liberalizaç…
liberalização
70,589 corpus weight
- lila
lila
70,586 corpus weight
- louvável
louvável
70,583 corpus weight
- mah
mah
70,581 corpus weight
- malaio
malaio
70,580 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “mah” 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 | mah |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “mah”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mah is neighbouring look-alikes ("me", "my", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection. Frequency #29,420 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Gloss: "usada para chamar ou deter alguém, ou para chamar sua atenção".
Zero misspellings are on record for mah in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is mah, spelled M-A-H.
Definition
- 1usada para chamar ou deter alguém, ou para chamar sua atenção
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Venha aqui mah.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mah", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).