allavsantaWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: alla is a verb, anta is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“alla” is a verb and “anta” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#10,986
“alla” frequency rank
#44,857
“anta” frequency rank
55843
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature alla anta
Definition Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif passé simple du verbe aller. Ante.

Letter map: alla vs anta

Shared letters muted; letters that set alla and anta apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. alla and anta follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
alla
4 ch
anta

Role in the sentence - alla and anta

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: alla is averb and antaanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55843, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

alla is recorded at frequency rank #10,986, classified as averb, pronounced \a.la\. anta is at rank #44,857, 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 55843, this pair ranks #124,869 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of alla vs anta

Shared letters: a. Private to "alla": l. Private to "anta": nt.

"alla" · 4 letters · shape VCCV  ·  "anta" · 4 letters · shape VCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • alla ← alal
  • anta ← anat · annta · antta · atna · nata

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "alla" and "anta" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "alla" is a verb and "anta" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "alla" or "anta"?
"alla" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,986 in our French list, against #44,857 for "anta". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "alla" vs "anta" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "alla" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "anta" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #124,869 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "alla" and "anta" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "anta vs arti". 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 #124,869 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list