al
/al/
The verdict
“al” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,002) as a contraction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,002
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ao (contração da preposição a (Espanhol) e do artigo el (Espanhol)).
Corpus desk
Index PT-al · al · Portuguese
al · rank #1,002 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,002
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH aniversário
Nearest frequency peer: aniversário (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “al”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- sai
sai
99,003 corpus weight
- us
us
99,002 corpus weight
- al
al
98,999 corpus weight
- aniversário
aniversário
98,998 corpus weight
- china
china
98,996 corpus weight
- conversa
conversa
98,995 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “al” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | al |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Contraction |
| IPA | /al/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #1,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “al”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for al is neighbouring look-alikes ("As", "ao", …), not just typos; it is acontraction pronounced /al/. Frequency #1,002 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Gloss: "ao (contração da preposição a (Espanhol) e do artigo el (Espanhol)).".
al doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "As", "ao", "ar", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is al, spelled A-L.
Definition
- 1ao (contração da preposição a (Espanhol) e do artigo el (Espanhol)).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how al appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nota: quando se tem um substantivo próprio após, não se usa a contração.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.