mil
/miw/, /mil/
The verdict
“mil” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #263) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #263
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - muitos, inúmeros, uma grande quantidade:
Corpus desk
Index PT-mil · mil · Portuguese
mil · rank #263 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #263
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH direito
Nearest frequency peer: direito (-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 “mil”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- janeiro
janeiro
99,742 corpus weight
- poder
poder
99,741 corpus weight
- dele
dele
99,740 corpus weight
- direito
direito
99,739 corpus weight
- mil
mil
99,738 corpus weight
- número
número
99,735 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “mil” 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 | 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) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “mil”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mil is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "mo", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /miw/, /mil/. Frequency #263 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Gloss: "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:
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hoje não poderei ir: tenho mil coisas ainda para fazer no escritório.
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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