mim
/ˈmĩ/
The verdict
“mim” is in the everyday core of Portuguese, ranked #113 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a pronoun.
- #113
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - caso oblíquo do pronome pessoal da primeira pessoa, usado após preposições (a, ante, após, até, contra, de, desde, entre, para, por, sem, sobre)
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) |
Where “mim” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for mim is 3 letters long, classified as a pronoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmĩ/. Corpus data places it at rank #113 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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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Using “mim”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-I-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈmĩ/ (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. mim 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.