maio
/ˈmaj.ju/
The verdict
“maio” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #523) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #523
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - quinto mês do ano civil, formado por 31 dias
Corpus desk
Index PT-maio · maio · Portuguese
maio · rank #523 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #523
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH levar
Nearest frequency peer: levar (-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 “maio”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- ideia
ideia
99,481 corpus weight
- junto
junto
99,480 corpus weight
- levar
levar
99,479 corpus weight
- maio
maio
99,478 corpus weight
- nessa
nessa
99,477 corpus weight
- ontem
ontem
99,476 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “maio” 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 | maio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmaj.ju/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “maio”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for maio is neighbouring look-alikes ("mi", "mo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈmaj.ju/. Frequency #523 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Gloss: "quinto mês do ano civil, formado por 31 dias".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for maio, with forms such as "amio", "maoi", and "miao". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mi", "mo", "mas", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 maio, spelled M-A-I-O.
Definition
- 1quinto mês do ano civil, formado por 31 dias
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how maio appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Maio é o mês das noivas.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amio
- maoi
- miao
- mmaio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maio - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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