mat
/mat/
The verdict
“mat” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,805) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,805
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - casamento
Corpus desk
Index PT-mat · mat · Portuguese
mat · rank #21,805 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,805
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH matasse
Nearest frequency peer: matasse (+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 “mat”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- listar
listar
78,203 corpus weight
- mat
mat
78,196 corpus weight
- matasse
matasse
78,195 corpus weight
- mercury
mercury
78,193 corpus weight
- migrar
migrar
78,192 corpus weight
- morse
morse
78,188 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “mat” 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 | mat |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mat/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “mat”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mat is neighbouring look-alikes ("me", "my", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /mat/. Frequency #21,805 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Gloss: "casamento".
mat has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is mat, spelled M-A-T.
Definition
- 1casamento
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).