mahvsMarkWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#29,420
“mah” frequency rank
#2,587
“Mark” frequency rank
32007
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mah Mark
Definition usada para chamar ou deter alguém, ou para chamar sua atenção Marcos

Letter map: mah vs Mark

Shared letters muted; letters that set mah and Mark apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. mah runs 3 letters (CVC) against Mark's 4 (CVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

3 ch
mah
4 ch
Mark

Role in the sentence - mah and Mark

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mah is anintj and Markanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32007, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mah is recorded at frequency rank #29,420, classified as anintj. Mark is at rank #2,587, tagged as anoun, pronounced /maːk/ (Austrália)..

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 32007, this pair ranks #35,918 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mah vs Mark

Shared letters: am. Private to "mah": h. Private to "Mark": kr.

"mah" · 3 letters · shape CVC  ·  "Mark" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Mark ← amrk · makr · markk · marrk · mmark · mrak

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mah" for "Mark" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mah" is an intj and "Mark" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "mah" or "Mark" show up more?
"Mark" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,587 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.

Useful next steps

Pair "mah" vs "Mark" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mah" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Mark" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #35,918 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mah" and "Mark" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "maa vs mah". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #35,918 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