miss
The verdict
“miss” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,159) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,159
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - senhorita
Corpus desk
Index PT-miss · miss · Portuguese
miss · rank #3,159 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,159
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH pego
Nearest frequency peer: pego (+2 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 “miss”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- little
little
96,847 corpus weight
- major
major
96,846 corpus weight
- marinha
marinha
96,845 corpus weight
- miss
miss
96,842 corpus weight
- pego
pego
96,840 corpus weight
- positivo
positivo
96,838 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “miss” 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 | miss |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,159 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “miss”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for miss is neighbouring look-alikes ("mix", "mit", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #3,159 among 1,087 “M” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for miss, with forms such as "imss", "mis", and "mmiss". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mix", "mit", "mito", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is miss, spelled M-I-S-S.
Definition
- 1senhorita
- 2misse
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how miss appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Miss America.
Miss Brazil.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imss
- mis
- mmiss
- msis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of miss - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "miss", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).