min
The verdict
“min” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,495) as a symbol. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,495
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - símbolo de minuto
Corpus desk
Index PT-min · min · Portuguese
min · rank #4,495 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,495
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH Moçambique
Nearest frequency peer: Moçambique (+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 “min”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- legislativo
legislativo
95,509 corpus weight
- min
min
95,506 corpus weight
- Moçambique
Moçambique
95,505 corpus weight
- multa
multa
95,503 corpus weight
- nave
nave
95,502 corpus weight
- paraíba
paraíba
95,501 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “min” 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 | min |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,495 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “min”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for min is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "mo", …), not just typos; it is asymbol. Frequency #4,495 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Gloss: "símbolo de minuto".
No misspelling variants are generated for min in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "mo", "mix", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is min, spelled M-I-N.
Definition
- 1símbolo de minuto
Synonyms
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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