média

noun

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The verdict

“média” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #993. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#993
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,087
“M” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - valor intermediário

Corpus desk

Index PT-media · média · Portuguese

média · rank #993 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #993
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,087
  • PHOTO-FINISH médio

Nearest frequency peer: médio (+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.

Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “média”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “média” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

média vs meio
40% similar
média vs medo
40% similar
média vs meia
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for média
PropertyValue
Headwordmédia
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#993
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “média”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).médiacai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “médio” (#994), “mudança” (#991), “mente” (#990). Entre 1,087 lemas com “M”, “média” fica em #993. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around média, anoun. Corpus frequency is #993 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for média, with forms such as "mdéia", "mmédia", and "médai". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "meio", "medo", "meia", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is média, spelled M-É-D-I-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    valor intermediário
  2. 2
    mistura de café com leite

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how média appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. "Seu garçom, faça o favor de me trazer depressa, Uma boa média que não seja requentada."

This word in other languages

average(English)promedio(Español)moyenne(Français)Durchschnitt(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mdéia
  • mmédia
  • médai
  • méddia
  • méida
  • émdia

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of média - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

mdéia2mmédia1médai2méddia1méida2émdia2
Edit distance from "média"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "média"?
"média" is spelled M-É-D-I-A.
What does "média" mean?
As a noun, "média" means: valor intermediário
What words are commonly confused with "média"?
"média" is commonly confused with "meio", "medo", "meia". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "média" come from?
"média" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "média", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

médio#994mente#990preço#996Linda#989

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

missão6 variantsverão6 variantsvisão6 variantspodia6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list