agevsatéWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: age is a verb, até is an adverb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“age” is a verb and “até” is an adverb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#4,692
“age” frequency rank
#55
“até” frequency rank
4747
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature age até
Definition envelhecer também, inclusive

Letter map: age vs até

Shared letters muted; letters that set age and até apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

3 ch
age
3 ch
até

Part-of-speech tell for age / até

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: age is averb and atéanadverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 4747, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

age is recorded at frequency rank #4,692, classified as averb. até is at rank #55, tagged as anadv, pronounced /ɐ.ˈtɛ/.

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 4747, this pair ranks #70,055 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of age vs até

Shared letters: a. Private to "age": eg. Private to "até": .

"age" · 3 letters · shape VCV  ·  "até" · 3 letters · shape VCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "age" and "até" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "age" is a verb and "até" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "age" vs "até" - which ranks higher?
"até" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #55 in our Portuguese list, against #4,692 for "age". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pair "age" vs "até" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "age" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "até" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #70,055 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "age" and "até" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "acs vs age". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #70,055 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