aliadovsaliásTell them apart

Quick tell: aliado is a noun, aliás is an adverb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“aliado” is a noun and “aliás” is an adverb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#5,163
“aliado” frequency rank
#2,661
“aliás” frequency rank
7824
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature aliado aliás
Definition entidade (pessoa, time, estado, etc) que se aliou a outra entidade de outra maneira

Letter map: aliado vs aliás

Shared letters muted; letters that set aliado and aliás apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

6 ch
aliado
5 ch
aliás

Role in the sentence - aliado and aliás

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: aliado is anoun and aliásanadverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7824, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aliado is recorded at frequency rank #5,163, classified as anoun. aliás is at rank #2,661, tagged as anadv.

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 7824, this pair ranks #66,208 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of aliado vs aliás

Shared letters: ail. Private to "aliado": do. Private to "aliás": .

"aliado" · 6 letters · shape VCVVCV  ·  "aliás" · 5 letters · shape VCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • aliadoailado · alaido · aliaddo · aliaod · alidao · alliado · laiado

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "aliado" for "aliás" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "aliado" is a noun and "aliás" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "aliado" vs "aliás" - which ranks higher?
"aliás" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,661 in our Portuguese list, against #5,163 for "aliado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "aliado" and "aliás". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "aliado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "aliás" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #66,208 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "aliado" and "aliás" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aleijado vs aliado". 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 #66,208 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