AlbavsallTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#21,070
“Alba” frequency rank
#2,001
“all” frequency rank
23071
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Alba all
Definition Escócia todo

Letter map: Alba vs all

Shared letters muted; letters that set Alba and all apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
Alba
3 ch
all

Part-of-speech tell for Alba / all

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Alba is anoun and allanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23071, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Alba is recorded at frequency rank #21,070, classified as anoun. 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 23071, this pair ranks #46,828 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Alba vs all

Shared letters: al. Private to "Alba": b. Private to "all": -.

"Alba" · 4 letters · shape VCCV  ·  "all" · 3 letters · shape VCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Albaalab · albba · allba · laba

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Alba" and "all" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Alba" is a noun and "all" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Alba" vs "all" - which ranks higher?
"all" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,001 in our Portuguese list, against #21,070 for "Alba". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "Alba" and "all". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Alba" 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 #46,828 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Alba" and "all" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Alba vs alce". 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 #46,828 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