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mui

Portuguese, adverb/ˈmũj̃/

mui is spelled M-U-I (3 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 23,592nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mui is a Portuguese adverb meaning “very” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “em alto grau”.

What does mui mean in English?

adverb

  1. 1

    archaicvery

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adverb: 1. em alto grau

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of mui

  • muy alternative obsolete
  • mum alternative dialectal
  • mim alternative dialectal

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce mui?

  • Brazil /ˈmũj̃/
  • Brazil [ˈmũɪ̯̃]
  • Portugal /ˈmũj̃/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is mui in Portuguese?

mui appears 1.8 times per million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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