mil
/miw/, /mil/
The verdict
“mil” is in the everyday core of Portuguese, ranked #263 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #263
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - muitos, inúmeros, uma grande quantidade:
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 | mil |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /miw/, /mil/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #263 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mil” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for mil is 3 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /miw/, /mil/. Corpus data places it at rank #263 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "muitos, inúmeros, uma grande quantidade:".
Zero misspellings are on record for mil in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "mo", "mim", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is mil, spelled M-I-L.
Definition
- 1muitos, inúmeros, uma grande quantidade:
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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Using “mil”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-I-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /miw/, /mil/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “my” - see the side-by-side comparison. mil vs my
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.