meio
/ˈmɐj.u/
The verdict
“meio” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #190) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #190
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - designativo de metade
Corpus desk
Index PT-meio · meio · Portuguese
meio · rank #190 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #190
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH grupo
Nearest frequency peer: grupo (-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 “meio”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- após
após
99,814 corpus weight
- duas
duas
99,813 corpus weight
- grupo
grupo
99,812 corpus weight
- meio
meio
99,811 corpus weight
- primeira
primeira
99,810 corpus weight
- tipo
tipo
99,809 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “meio” 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 | meio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈmɐj.u/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #190 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “meio”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for meio is neighbouring look-alikes ("mi", "mo", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /ˈmɐj.u/. Frequency #190 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Gloss: "designativo de metade".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for meio, with forms such as "emio", "meoi", and "mieo". 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, "mi", "mo", "meu", 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is meio, spelled M-E-I-O.
Definition
- 1designativo de metade
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emio
- meoi
- mieo
- mmeio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of meio - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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