mec
The verdict
“mec” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,225) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,225
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tranquilo
Corpus desk
Index PT-mec · mec · Portuguese
mec · rank #8,225 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,225
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH mineral
Nearest frequency peer: mineral (+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 “mec”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- logística
logística
91,781 corpus weight
- maldição
maldição
91,780 corpus weight
- mec
mec
91,776 corpus weight
- mineral
mineral
91,775 corpus weight
- monarquia
monarquia
91,772 corpus weight
- nelas
nelas
91,770 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “mec” 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 | mec |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “mec”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mec is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "mi", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #8,225 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Gloss: "tranquilo".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mec, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "mi", "mo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is mec, spelled M-E-C.
Definition
- 1tranquilo
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mec appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ele já tá mec depois daquilo que aconteceu.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mec", not the corpus desk frequency band.