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“minha” and “mino” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#65
“minha” frequency rank
#27,177
“mino” frequency rank
27242
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature minha mino
Definition mulher, esposa do próprio forma masculina de mina: rapaz

Letter map: minha vs mino

Shared letters muted; letters that set minha and mino apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. minha runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against mino's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
minha
4 ch
mino

Spelling & dictionary notes on minha vs mino

minha and mino are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27242, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

minha is recorded at frequency rank #65, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈmi.ɲɐ/. 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 27242, this pair ranks #41,766 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of minha vs mino

Shared letters: imn. Private to "minha": ah. Private to "mino": o.

"minha" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "mino" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • minha ← imnha · mihna · minah · minhha · minnha · mminha · mniha
  • mino ← imno · minno · mion · mmino · mnio

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "minha" and "mino" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "minha" vs "mino" - which ranks higher?
"minha" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #65 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.

Useful next steps

Pair "minha" vs "mino" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "minha" 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 #41,766 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "minha" 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 #41,766 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