alla
The verdict
“alla” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,313) as a contraction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,313
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 2
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - na
Corpus desk
Index PT-alla · alla · Portuguese
alla · rank #36,313 · 2 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,313
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 2 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH agi
Nearest frequency peer: agi (-2 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 “alla”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- acarajé
acarajé
63,700 corpus weight
- acoplado
acoplado
63,696 corpus weight
- afinco
afinco
63,691 corpus weight
- agi
agi
63,690 corpus weight
- alla
alla
63,688 corpus weight
- antecedente
antecedente
63,679 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “alla” 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 | alla |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Contraction |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #36,313 |
| Misspellings tracked | 2 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “alla”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for alla is neighbouring look-alikes ("ama", "alô", …), not just typos; it is acontraction. Frequency #36,313 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Gloss: "na".
Our generated misspelling index lists 2 likely wrong-spelling variants for alla, including "alal" and "lala". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ama", "alô", "asa", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is alla, spelled A-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1na
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alla appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
na minha idade = alla mia età
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alal
- lala
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alla - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "alla", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).