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

Which to use

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

#30,679
“all's” frequency rank: #2,142
“allows” frequency rank: 32821
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	all's	allows
Definition	Contraction of all + is.	third-person singular simple present indicative of allow

Letter map: all's vs allows

Shared letters muted; letters that set all's and allows apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

5 ch

all's

6 ch

allows

Grammar separator: all's vs allows

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: all's is acontraction and allowsaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32821, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

all's is recorded at frequency rank #30,679, classified as acontraction. allows is at rank #2,142, tagged as averb, pronounced /əˈlaʊz/.

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 32821, this pair ranks #334,646 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of all's vs allows

Shared letters: als. Private to "all's": -. Private to "allows": ow.

"all's" · 4 letters · shape VCCC · "allows" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

allows ← allosw · allowss · allowws · allwos · alolws · alows · lalows

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "all's" and "allows" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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

Which is more common, "all's" or "allows"?

"allows" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,142 in our English list, against #30,679 for "all's". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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Full dictionary entry for "all's" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "allows" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #334,646 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"all's" and "allows" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "all's vs alls". 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 #334,646 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.