mitar
The verdict
“mitar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #90,253 among 2,261 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,253
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,261
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - imitar, assemelhar-se, ter muito parecido com outra pessoa
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mitar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,253 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mitar” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mitar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #90,253 among 2,261 “M” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "imitar, assemelhar-se, ter muito parecido com outra pessoa".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mitar, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is mitar, spelled M-I-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1imitar, assemelhar-se, ter muito parecido com outra pessoa
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 “mitar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-I-T-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.