mim vs mui, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#113
“mim” frequency rank: #23,741
“mui” frequency rank: 23854
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	mim	mui
Definition	caso oblíquo do pronome pessoal da primeira pessoa, usado após preposições (a, ante, após, até, contra, de, desde, entre, para, por, sem, sobre)	em alto grau

Where the eye mixes mim and mui

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.

3 ch

mim

3 ch

mui

Visual trap between mim and mui

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: mim is /ˈmĩ/ while mui is /ˈmũj/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (pronoun vs adverb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23854, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mim is recorded at frequency rank #113, classified as apron, pronounced /ˈmĩ/. mui is at rank #23,741, tagged as anadv, pronounced /ˈmũj/.

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 23854, this pair ranks #45,886 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mim vs mui

Shared letters: im. Private to "mim": -. Private to "mui": u.

"mim" · 3 letters · shape CVC · "mui" · 3 letters · shape CVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "mim" and "mui" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mim" is a pronoun and "mui" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "mim" vs "mui" - which ranks higher?

"mim" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #113 in our Portuguese list, against #23,741 for "mui". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "mim" and "mui" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

Full dictionary entry for "mim" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "mui" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #45,886 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"mim" and "mui" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "maa vs mui". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #45,886 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.