ah vs até, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#640
“ah” frequency rank: #55
“até” frequency rank: 695
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	ah	até
Definition	exprime admiração	também, inclusive

Letter map: ah vs até

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

2 ch

3 ch

até

Part-of-speech tell for ah / até

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: ah is anintj and atéanadverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 695, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ah is recorded at frequency rank #640, classified as anintj. 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 695, this pair ranks #74,957 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of ah vs até

Shared letters: a. Private to "ah": h. Private to "até": té.

"ah" · 2 letters · shape VC · "até" · 3 letters · shape VCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "ah" and "até" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "ah" is an intj and "até" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "ah" vs "até" - which ranks higher?

"até" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #55 in our Portuguese list, against #640 for "ah". 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 "ah" and "até".

Full dictionary entry for "ah" 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 #74,957 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"ah" and "até" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "acs vs ah". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #74,957 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.