men
The verdict
“men” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,318) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,318
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pronome indefinido da terceira pessoa do singular, equivalente à partícula "se"
Corpus desk
Index PT-men · men · Portuguese
men · rank #6,318 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,318
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH manipulação
Nearest frequency peer: manipulação (-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 “men”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- know
know
93,690 corpus weight
- limão
limão
93,685 corpus weight
- manipulação
manipulação
93,684 corpus weight
- men
men
93,683 corpus weight
- mencionar
mencionar
93,682 corpus weight
- metragem
metragem
93,680 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “men” 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 | men |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “men”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for men is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "mi", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #6,318 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Gloss: "pronome indefinido da terceira pessoa do singular, equivalente à partícula "se"".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for men, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. 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 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 men, spelled M-E-N.
Definition
- 1pronome indefinido da terceira pessoa do singular, equivalente à partícula "se"
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how men appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Men zegt dat...
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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