alcançarvsaliançaWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: alcançar is a verb, aliança is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“alcançar” is a verb and “aliança” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#2,214
“alcançar” frequency rank
#2,816
“aliança” frequency rank
5030
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature alcançar aliança
Definition chegar a algum lugar ou ponto ato ou efeito de aliar

Letter map: alcançar vs aliança

Shared letters muted; letters that set alcançar and aliança apart highlighted. Shared run: 6. alcançar runs 8 letters (VCCVCCVC) against aliança's 7 (VCVVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
alcançar
7 ch
aliança

Part-of-speech tell for alcançar / aliança

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: alcançar is averb and aliançaanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 5030, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

alcançar is recorded at frequency rank #2,214, classified as averb, pronounced /aɫ.kɐ̃.ˈsaɾ/. aliança is at rank #2,816, tagged as anoun.

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 5030, this pair ranks #69,693 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of alcançar vs aliança

Shared letters: alnç. Private to "alcançar": cr. Private to "aliança": i.

"alcançar" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC  ·  "aliança" · 7 letters · shape VCVVCCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "alcançar" and "aliança" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "alcançar" is a verb and "aliança" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "alcançar" vs "aliança" - which ranks higher?
"alcançar" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,214 in our Portuguese list, against #2,816 for "aliança". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "alcançar" and "aliança". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "alcançar" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "aliança" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #69,693 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "alcançar" and "aliança" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "alavancar vs alcançar". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #69,693 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