als

conj

Letters

3 characters

Frequency Rank

#60,730

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

als is aPortugueseconj. It means: quando (no mesmo momento em que, usado apenas com ações no passado)

Key facts for als
PropertyValue
Headwordals
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechConj
Letters3
Frequency rank#60,730
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of als in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for als is 3 letters long, classified as aconj. Corpus data places it at rank #60,730 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "quando (no mesmo momento em que, usado apenas com ações no passado)".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for als in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is als, spelled A-L-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    quando (no mesmo momento em que, usado apenas com ações no passado)

Frequency rank: #60,730 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "als"?
"als" is spelled A-L-S.
What does "als" mean?
As a conj, "als" means: quando (no mesmo momento em que, usado apenas com ações no passado)
What language does "als" come from?
"als" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.