águavsahaTell them apart

Quick tell: água is a noun, aha is an intj, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“água” is a noun and “aha” is an intj - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#254
“água” frequency rank
#32,044
“aha” frequency rank
32298
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature água aha
Definition substância (H₂O) líquida e incolor, insípida e inodora, essencial para a vida da maior parte dos organismos vivos e excelente solvente para muitas outras substâncias; óxido de hidrogênio ver

Letter map: água vs aha

Shared letters muted; letters that set água and aha apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. água runs 4 letters (VCVV) against aha's 3 (VCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
água
3 ch
aha

Part-of-speech tell for água / aha

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: água is anoun and ahaanintj. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32298, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

água is recorded at frequency rank #254, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈa.gwɐ/. aha is at rank #32,044, tagged as anintj.

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 32298, this pair ranks #35,543 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of água vs aha

Shared letters: a. Private to "água": guá. Private to "aha": h.

"água" · 4 letters · shape VCVV  ·  "aha" · 3 letters · shape VCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "água" and "aha" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "água" is a noun and "aha" an intj, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "água" vs "aha" - which ranks higher?
"água" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #254 in our Portuguese list, against #32,044 for "aha". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "água" and "aha". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "água" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "aha" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #35,543 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "água" and "aha" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "acs vs aha". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #35,543 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