moi
/mwa/
The verdict
“moi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,946) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,946
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mim, eu, pronome pessoal tónico da primeira pessoa do singular:
Corpus desk
Index PT-moi · moi · Portuguese
moi · rank #20,946 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,946
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH moldura
Nearest frequency peer: moldura (+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 “moi”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- matava
matava
79,062 corpus weight
- mediana
mediana
79,059 corpus weight
- minúscula
minúscula
79,057 corpus weight
- moi
moi
79,055 corpus weight
- moldura
moldura
79,054 corpus weight
- monumental
monumental
79,051 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “moi” 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 | moi |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /mwa/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,946 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “moi”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for moi is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "mor", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /mwa/. Frequency #20,946 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Gloss: "mim, eu, pronome pessoal tónico da primeira pessoa do singular:".
Zero misspellings are on record for moi in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "mor", "MPB", 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, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is moi, spelled M-O-I.
Definition
- 1mim, eu, pronome pessoal tónico da primeira pessoa do singular:
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).