mevsmitWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: me is a pronoun, mit is an adverb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#28
“me” frequency rank
#13,791
“mit” frequency rank
13819
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Letter map: me vs mit

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

2 ch
me
3 ch
mit

Part-of-speech tell for me / mit

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: me is apronoun and mitanadverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13819, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

me is recorded at frequency rank #28, classified as apron. mit is at rank #13,791, tagged as anadv, pronounced /mɪt/.

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 13819, this pair ranks #58,406 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of me vs mit

Shared letters: m. Private to "me": e. Private to "mit": it.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "me" and "mit" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "me" is a pronoun and "mit" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "me" or "mit"?
"me" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28 in our Portuguese list, against #13,791 for "mit". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "me" and "mit". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "me" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mit" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #58,406 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "me" and "mit" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "maa vs mit". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #58,406 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