mito
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,250
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mito is aPortuguesenoun. It means: história maravilhosa sobre deuses, semideuses, heróis e aspectos da vida das pessoas em um passado muito distante Pronounced /ˈmi.tu/. It ranks #4,250 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with mo and mix.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mito |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmi.tu/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for mito is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmi.tu/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,250 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for mito, with forms such as "imto", "miot", and "mitto". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mo", "mix", "modo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is mito, spelled M-I-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1história maravilhosa sobre deuses, semideuses, heróis e aspectos da vida das pessoas em um passado muito distante
- 2pessoa que fica famosa e passa a ser considerada um herói
- 3história que não é real
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imto,miot,mitto,mmito,mtio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mito
Misspelling Variants of "mito"
Frequency rank: #4,250 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our Portuguese index: