Which to use
“ACLU” is a name and “all” is a determiner - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #21,127
- “ACLU” frequency rank
- #32
- “all” frequency rank
- 21159
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | ACLU | all |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Initialism of American Civil Liberties Union. | Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable). |
Letter map: ACLU vs all
Shared letters muted; letters that set ACLU and all apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.
Part-of-speech tell for ACLU / all
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: ACLU is aname and alladeterminer. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21159, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
ACLU is recorded at frequency rank #21,127, classified as aname. all is at rank #32, tagged as adet, pronounced /ɔːl/.
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 21159, this pair ranks #425,948 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of ACLU vs all
Shared letters: al. Private to "ACLU": cu. Private to "all": -.
"ACLU" · 4 letters · shape VCCV · "all" · 3 letters · shape VCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- ACLU ← acclu · acllu · acul · alcu · calu
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "ACLU" for "all" ever safe?
Frequency check: "ACLU" vs "all" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've compared "ACLU" and "all". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "ACLU" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "all" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #425,948 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "ACLU" and "all" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ACLU vs alc". 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 #425,948 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.