Moon
/mu:n/ ouvir^(fonte ?)
The verdict
“Moon” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,893) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,893
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lua
Corpus desk
Index PT-moon · Moon · Portuguese
Moon · rank #9,893 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,893
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH Mercosul
Nearest frequency peer: Mercosul (-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 “Moon”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- lente
lente
90,120 corpus weight
- licitação
licitação
90,117 corpus weight
- Mercosul
Mercosul
90,110 corpus weight
- Moon
Moon
90,108 corpus weight
- nora
nora
90,104 corpus weight
- obstáculo
obstáculo
90,101 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “Moon” 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 | Moon |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mu:n/ ouvir^(fonte ?) |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “Moon”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Moon is neighbouring look-alikes ("mor", "mora", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /mu:n/ ouvir^(fonte ?). Frequency #9,893 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Lua".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Moon, with forms such as "mmoon", "mon", and "moonn". 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is Moon, spelled M-O-O-N.
Definition
- 1Lua
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmoon
- mon
- moonn
- omon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Moon - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Moon", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).