mim
/ˈmĩ/
The verdict
“mim” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #113) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #113
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - caso oblíquo do pronome pessoal da primeira pessoa, usado após preposições (a, ante, após, até, contra, de, desde, entre, para, por, sem, sobre)
Corpus desk
Index PT-mim · mim · Portuguese
mim · rank #113 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #113
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH parte
Nearest frequency peer: parte (+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 “mim”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- dois
dois
99,892 corpus weight
- nunca
nunca
99,891 corpus weight
- todo
todo
99,890 corpus weight
- mim
mim
99,888 corpus weight
- parte
parte
99,887 corpus weight
- hoje
hoje
99,884 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “mim” 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 | mim |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /ˈmĩ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “mim”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mim is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "mo", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /ˈmĩ/. Frequency #113 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Gloss: "caso oblíquo do pronome pessoal da primeira pessoa, usado após preposições (a, ante, após, até, contra, de, desde, entre, para, por, sem, sobre)".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mim, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "mo", "min", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 mim, spelled M-I-M.
Definition
- 1caso oblíquo do pronome pessoal da primeira pessoa, usado após preposições (a, ante, após, até, contra, de, desde, entre, para, por, sem, sobre)
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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