man

pron

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The verdict

“man” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,736) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#2,736
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,087
“M” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - se (atua como partícula de indeterminação do sujeito):

Corpus desk

Index PT-man · man · Portuguese

man · rank #2,736 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,736
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,087
  • PHOTO-FINISH like

Nearest frequency peer: like (-2 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 “man”

Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo

corpus weight

What this shows As barras situam “man” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

man vs me
33% similar
man vs my
33% similar
man vs mi
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for man
PropertyValue
Headwordman
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPronoun
Letters3
Frequency rank#2,736
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “man”

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).mancai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “like” (#2,734), “moeda” (#2,738), “individual” (#2,731). Entre 1,087 lemas com “M”, “man” fica em #2,736. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for man is neighbouring look-alikes ("me", "my", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #2,736 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Gloss: "se (atua como partícula de indeterminação do sujeito):".

No generated misspelling entries exist for man in our index, 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, 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 man, spelled M-A-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    se (atua como partícula de indeterminação do sujeito):

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how man appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Was sieht man auf dem Bild?

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "man"?
"man" is spelled M-A-N.
What does "man" mean?
As a pronoun, "man" means: se (atua como partícula de indeterminação do sujeito):
What words are commonly confused with "man"?
"man" is commonly confused with "me", "my", "mi". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "man" come from?
"man" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "man", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

chá#2,711pop#2,648Eis#2,833mel#2,843

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list