map
The verdict
“map” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,636) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,636
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mapear
Corpus desk
Index PT-map · map · Portuguese
map · rank #18,636 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,636
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH louro
Nearest frequency peer: louro (-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 “map”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- liquidação
liquidação
81,369 corpus weight
- liturgia
liturgia
81,368 corpus weight
- lotação
lotação
81,367 corpus weight
- louro
louro
81,366 corpus weight
- map
map
81,365 corpus weight
- matem
matem
81,363 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “map” 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 | map |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “map”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for map is neighbouring look-alikes ("me", "my", …), not just typos; it is averb. Frequency #18,636 among 1,087 “M” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for map in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is map, spelled M-A-P.
Definition
- 1mapear
- 2corresponder
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how map appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This doesn't map to my understanding of how things should work.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).