means
The verdict
“means” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #30,253. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,253
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - meios, meio
Corpus desk
Index PT-means · means · Portuguese
means · rank #30,253 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,253
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH mayo
Nearest frequency peer: mayo (-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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “means”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- mamadeira
mamadeira
69,756 corpus weight
- maquete
maquete
69,754 corpus weight
- mayo
mayo
69,750 corpus weight
- means
means
69,748 corpus weight
- mimosa
mimosa
69,744 corpus weight
- miopia
miopia
69,742 corpus weight
What this shows “means” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
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 | means |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #30,253 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “means”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around means, anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,253 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "meios, meio".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for means, with forms such as "emans", "maens", and "meanns". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mês", "men", "menu", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is means, spelled M-E-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1meios, meio
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how means appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A car is a means of transport.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emans
- maens
- meanns
- meanss
- measn
- menas
- mmeans
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of means - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).