aliás vs alla, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#2,661
“aliás” frequency rank: #36,313
“alla” frequency rank: 38974
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	aliás	alla
Definition	de outra maneira	na

Letter map: aliás vs alla

Shared letters muted; letters that set aliás and alla apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

5 ch

aliás

4 ch

alla

Role in the sentence - aliás and alla

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: aliás is anadverb and allaacontraction. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38974, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aliás is recorded at frequency rank #2,661, classified as anadv. alla is at rank #36,313, tagged as acontraction.

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 38974, this pair ranks #27,398 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of aliás vs alla

Shared letters: al. Private to "aliás": isá. Private to "alla": -.

"aliás" · 5 letters · shape VCVVC · "alla" · 4 letters · shape VCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

alla ← alal · lala

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "aliás" for "alla" ever safe?

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

Frequency check: "aliás" vs "alla" - which ranks higher?

"aliás" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,661 in our Portuguese list, against #36,313 for "alla". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "aliás" and "alla".

Full dictionary entry for "aliás" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "alla" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #27,398 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"aliás" and "alla" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "alla vs alles". 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 #27,398 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.