mahvsmanhãWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: mah is a intj, manhã is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“mah” is an intj and “manhã” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#29,420
“mah” frequency rank
#428
“manhã” frequency rank
29848
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mah manhã
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Letter map: mah vs manhã

Shared letters muted; letters that set mah and manhã apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. mah runs 3 letters (CVC) against manhã's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

3 ch
mah
5 ch
manhã

Part-of-speech tell for mah / manhã

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mah is anintj and manhãanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29848, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mah is recorded at frequency rank #29,420, classified as anintj. manhã is at rank #428, tagged as anoun, pronounced /mɐ.ˈɲɐ̃/.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 29848, this pair ranks #38,704 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mah vs manhã

Shared letters: ahm. Private to "mah": -. Private to "manhã": nã.

"mah" · 3 letters · shape CVC  ·  "manhã" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mah" for "manhã" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mah" is an intj and "manhã" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "mah" vs "manhã" - which ranks higher?
"manhã" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #428 in our Portuguese list, against #29,420 for "mah". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "mah" and "manhã". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mah" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "manhã" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #38,704 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mah" and "manhã" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "maa vs mah". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #38,704 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list