mood
/mud/
The verdict
“mood” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #25,401) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #25,401
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - humor
Corpus desk
Index PT-mood · mood · Portuguese
mood · rank #25,401 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,401
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH modernista
Nearest frequency peer: modernista (-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 “mood”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- menstrual
menstrual
74,606 corpus weight
- message
message
74,605 corpus weight
- mestiço
mestiço
74,604 corpus weight
- metano
metano
74,603 corpus weight
- modernista
modernista
74,601 corpus weight
- mood
mood
74,600 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “mood” 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 | mood |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mud/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #25,401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “mood”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mood is neighbouring look-alikes ("mor", "mora", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /mud/. Frequency #25,401 among 1,087 “M” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for mood, with forms such as "mmood", "mod", and "moodd". 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, "mor", "mora", "moto", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is mood, spelled M-O-O-D.
Definition
- 1humor
- 2modo
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mood appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I'm in a good mood.
imperative mood
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmood
- mod
- moodd
- omod
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mood - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).