mir
The verdict
“mir” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,334) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,334
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - milho
Corpus desk
Index PT-mir · mir · Portuguese
mir · rank #17,334 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,334
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH murro
Nearest frequency peer: murro (+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 “mir”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- luminoso
luminoso
82,676 corpus weight
- maker
maker
82,672 corpus weight
- mensalmente
mensalmente
82,669 corpus weight
- mir
mir
82,667 corpus weight
- murro
murro
82,666 corpus weight
- otimização
otimização
82,659 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “mir” 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 | mir |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “mir”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mir is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "mo", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #17,334 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Gloss: "milho".
Zero misspellings are on record for mir in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. 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.
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 mir, spelled M-I-R.
Definition
- 1milho
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vamo coiê os mir.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).