Mai
/maɪ̯/
The verdict
“Mai” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,369) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,369
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - maio
Corpus desk
Index PT-mai · Mai · Portuguese
Mai · rank #9,369 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,369
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH lésbica
Nearest frequency peer: lésbica (-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 “Mai”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- limitar
limitar
90,636 corpus weight
- lâmina
lâmina
90,634 corpus weight
- lésbica
lésbica
90,633 corpus weight
- Mai
Mai
90,632 corpus weight
- monitorar
monitorar
90,630 corpus weight
- motel
motel
90,629 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “Mai” 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 | Mai |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /maɪ̯/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “Mai”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Mai is neighbouring look-alikes ("me", "my", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /maɪ̯/. Frequency #9,369 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Gloss: "maio".
Mai has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "me", "my", "mi", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is Mai, spelled M-A-I.
Definition
- 1maio
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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