matvsmeWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#21,805
“mat” frequency rank
#28
“me” frequency rank
21833
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mat me
Definition casamento pronome pessoal oblíquo átono da primeira pessoa do singular, usado em complementos direto do verbo:

Letter map: mat vs me

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

3 ch
mat
2 ch
me

Part-of-speech tell for mat / me

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mat is anoun and meapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21833, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mat is recorded at frequency rank #21,805, classified as anoun, pronounced /mat/. 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 21833, this pair ranks #48,336 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mat vs me

Shared letters: m. Private to "mat": at. Private to "me": e.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mat" for "me" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mat" is a noun and "me" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "mat" or "me" show up more?
"me" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28 in our Portuguese list, against #21,805 for "mat". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pair "mat" vs "me" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mat" 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 #48,336 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mat" and "me" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "maa vs mat". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #48,336 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