mahvsmeWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#29,420
“mah” frequency rank
#28
“me” frequency rank
29448
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mah me
Definition usada para chamar ou deter alguém, ou para chamar sua atenção pronome pessoal oblíquo átono da primeira pessoa do singular, usado em complementos direto do verbo:

Letter map: mah vs me

Shared letters muted; letters that set mah and me apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

3 ch
mah
2 ch
me

Role in the sentence - mah and me

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mah is anintj and meapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29448, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mah is recorded at frequency rank #29,420, classified as anintj. me is at rank #28, tagged as apron.

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 29448, this pair ranks #39,175 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mah vs me

Shared letters: m. Private to "mah": ah. Private to "me": e.

"mah" · 3 letters · shape CVC  ·  "me" · 2 letters · shape CV

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mah" for "me" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mah" is an intj and "me" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "mah" vs "me" - which ranks higher?
"me" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28 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 "me". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mah" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "me" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #39,175 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mah" and "me" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "maa vs mah". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #39,175 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