# also

> English word · Adverb · IPA /ˈɔːl.səʊ/ · frequency rank #70

## Definitions
1. In addition; besides; as well; further; too.
2. To the same degree or extent; so, as.

## Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂elnós
Proto-Germanic *allaz
Proto-West Germanic *all
Proto-Indo-European *swéder.?
Proto-Germanic *swa
Proto-West Germanic *swā
Proto-West Germanic *allswā
Old English eallswā
Middle English also
English also
From Middle English also, alswo, alswa (also als(e), as, whence English as), from Old English eallswā (“just like, also”), from Proto-West Germanic *allswā, equivalent to all + so. Cognate with Scots alsa, alswa (“also, even so, in the same way, as, as well”), Saterland Frisian also (“accordingly, therefore, thus”), West Frisian alsa (“so, just so, even so, thus”), Old Saxon alsō (“similarly, as if, just as, when”), Dutch alzo (“so, thus”), German also (“so, thus”), Danish altså (“so”), Norwegian Bokmål altså (“so, therefore, accordingly, thus”), Norwegian Nynorsk altso (“so, accordingly, therefore, thus”), Swedish alltså (“so, therefore, accordingly, thus, then”). Doublet of as. More at all, so.

## Easily confused with
- **as** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/also-vs-as)
- **ao** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/also-vs-ao)
- **ask** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/also-vs-ask)
- **ass** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/also-vs-ass)
- **ash** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/also-vs-ash)
- **alt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/also-vs-alt)
- **ASA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/also-vs-asa)
- **ans** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/also-vs-ans)
- **AWS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/also-vs-aws)
- **APS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/also-vs-aps)
- **ASD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/also-vs-asd)
- **asp** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/also-vs-asp)
- **ASU** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/also-vs-asu)
- **ASL** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/also-vs-asl)
- **asc** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/also-vs-asc)
- **asm** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/also-vs-asm)
- **Asi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/also-vs-asi)
- **ATO** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/also-vs-ato)
- **asf** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/also-vs-asf)
- **ASO** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/also-vs-aso)

## Common misspellings (5)
`allso`, `alos`, `alsso`, `aslo`, `laso`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/also