me
The verdict
“me” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pronome pessoal oblíquo átono da primeira pessoa do singular, usado em complementos direto do verbo:
Corpus desk
Index PT-me · me · Portuguese
me · rank #28 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #28
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH ao
Nearest frequency peer: ao (-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 “me”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- mas
mas
99,976 corpus weight
- foi
foi
99,975 corpus weight
- ao
ao
99,974 corpus weight
- me
me
99,973 corpus weight
- você
você
99,972 corpus weight
- ser
ser
99,971 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “me” 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 | me |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “me”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for me is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "mi", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #28 among 1,087 “M” headwords. 6 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for me in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "mi", "mo", 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is me, spelled M-E.
Definition
- 1pronome pessoal oblíquo átono da primeira pessoa do singular, usado em complementos direto do verbo:
- 2pronome pessoal oblíquo átono da primeira pessoa do singular, usado em complementos indiretos, suprimindo a preposição a, de, em ou para:
- 3pronome pessoal reflexivo da primeira pessoa do singular:
- 4meu (como dativo de posse):
- 5usado para enfatizar a a(c)ção verbal (como dativo ético):
- 6usado no sentido passivo, com alguns verbos:
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how me appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ela confirmou que me ama.
O empregado me (=a mim) disse coisas terríveis a respeito de seu patrão.
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.