most
The verdict
“most” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #13,567 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adverb.
- #13,567
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - muito
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 | most |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,567 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “most” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for most is 4 letters long, classified as an adverb. Corpus data places it at rank #13,567 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "muito".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for most, with forms such as "mmost", "mosst", and "mostt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "moto", "must", "mote", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is most, spelled M-O-S-T.
Definition
- 1muito
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmost,mosst,mostt,mots,msot,omst
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of most - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “most”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-O-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “moto” - see the side-by-side comparison. most vs moto
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.