achavsallaTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#547
“acha” frequency rank
#36,313
“alla” frequency rank
36860
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature acha alla
Definition cavaca na

Letter map: acha vs alla

Shared letters muted; letters that set acha and alla apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
acha
4 ch
alla

Part-of-speech tell for acha / alla

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: acha is anoun and allaacontraction. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36860, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

acha is recorded at frequency rank #547, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈa.ʃɐ/. alla is at rank #36,313, tagged as acontraction.

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 36860, this pair ranks #29,867 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of acha vs alla

Shared letters: a. Private to "acha": ch. Private to "alla": l.

"acha" · 4 letters · shape VCCV  ·  "alla" · 4 letters · shape VCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • achaacah · accha · achha · ahca · caha
  • allaalal · lala

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "acha" and "alla" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "acha" is a noun and "alla" a contraction, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "acha" or "alla"?
"acha" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #547 in our Portuguese list, against #36,313 for "alla". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "acha" and "alla".

  • Full dictionary entry for "acha" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "alla" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #29,867 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "acha" and "alla" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "alla vs alles". 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 #29,867 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list