all's vs Alla, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“all's” is a contraction and “Alla” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#30,679
“all's” frequency rank: #33,112
“Alla” frequency rank: 63791
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	all's	Alla
Definition	Contraction of all + is.	Obsolete form of Allah.

Letter map: all's vs Alla

Shared letters muted; letters that set all's and Alla apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. all's (VCCC) and Alla (VCCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch

all's

4 ch

Alla

Grammar separator: all's vs Alla

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: all's is acontraction and Allaaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63791, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

all's is recorded at frequency rank #30,679, classified as acontraction. Alla is at rank #33,112, tagged as aname.

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 63791, this pair ranks #81,058 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of all's vs Alla

Shared letters: al. Private to "all's": s. Private to "Alla": -.

"all's" · 4 letters · shape VCCC · "Alla" · 4 letters · shape VCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

Alla ← alal · lala

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "all's" for "Alla" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "all's" is a contraction and "Alla" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary English text, does "all's" or "Alla" show up more?

"all's" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #30,679 in our English list, against #33,112 for "Alla". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "all's" and "Alla". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "all's" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "Alla" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #81,058 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"all's" and "Alla" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Alla vs Asta". 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 #81,058 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.