minä
/'mi.næ/
The verdict
“minä” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eu, pronome pessoal do caso nominativo da primeira pessoa do singular:
Corpus desk
Index PT-mina · minä · Portuguese
minä · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | minä |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /'mi.næ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “minä” em português
Rare enough to double-check
minä is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as apronoun, transcribed /'mi.næ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for minä in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is minä, spelled M-I-N-Ä.
Definition
- 1eu, pronome pessoal do caso nominativo da primeira pessoa do singular:
- 2caso essivo de mikä:
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how minä appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Minä pidän appelsiineista.
Minä sinä minua oikein pidät?
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.