ahvsallWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: ah is a intj, all is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“ah” is an intj and “all” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#640
“ah” frequency rank
#2,001
“all” frequency rank
2641
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature ah all
Definition exprime admiração todo

Letter map: ah vs all

Shared letters muted; letters that set ah and all apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

2 ch
ah
3 ch
all

Part-of-speech tell for ah / all

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: ah is anintj and allanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 2641, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ah is recorded at frequency rank #640, classified as anintj. all is at rank #2,001, tagged as anadj.

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 2641, this pair ranks #72,682 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of ah vs all

Shared letters: a. Private to "ah": h. Private to "all": l.

"ah" · 2 letters · shape VC  ·  "all" · 3 letters · shape VCC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "ah" and "all" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "ah" is an intj and "all" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "ah" or "all"?
"ah" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #640 in our Portuguese list, against #2,001 for "all". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "ah" vs "all" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "ah" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "all" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #72,682 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "ah" and "all" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "acs vs all". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #72,682 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