mimvsminoTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#113
“mim” frequency rank
#27,177
“mino” frequency rank
27290
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mim mino
Definition caso oblíquo do pronome pessoal da primeira pessoa, usado após preposições (a, ante, após, até, contra, de, desde, entre, para, por, sem, sobre) forma masculina de mina: rapaz

Letter map: mim vs mino

Shared letters muted; letters that set mim and mino apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

3 ch
mim
4 ch
mino

Role in the sentence - mim and mino

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mim is apronoun and minoanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27290, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mim is recorded at frequency rank #113, classified as apron, pronounced /ˈmĩ/. mino is at rank #27,177, tagged as anoun.

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 27290, this pair ranks #41,713 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mim vs mino

Shared letters: im. Private to "mim": -. Private to "mino": no.

"mim" · 3 letters · shape CVC  ·  "mino" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • minoimno · minno · mion · mmino · mnio

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "mim" and "mino" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mim" is a pronoun and "mino" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "mim" or "mino"?
"mim" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #113 in our Portuguese list, against #27,177 for "mino". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "mim" and "mino".

  • Full dictionary entry for "mim" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mino" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #41,713 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mim" and "mino" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mino vs muso". 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 #41,713 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