mas
/ˈmɐʃ/
The verdict
“mas” is in the everyday core of Portuguese, ranked #25 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a conjunction.
- #25
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - conjunção adversativa, indica clara oposição entre ideias
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 | mas |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | /ˈmɐʃ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mas” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for mas is 3 letters long, classified as a conjunction, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmɐʃ/. Corpus data places it at rank #25 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "conjunção adversativa, indica clara oposição entre ideias".
No misspelling variants are generated for mas 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is mas, spelled M-A-S.
Definition
- 1conjunção adversativa, indica clara oposição entre ideias
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Using “mas”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈmɐʃ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “me” - see the side-by-side comparison. mas vs me
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.