aliásvsallesWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: aliás is a adverb, alles is a pronoun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#2,661
“aliás” frequency rank
#49,287
“alles” frequency rank
51948
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature aliás alles
Definition de outra maneira tudo, todos

Letter map: aliás vs alles

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

5 ch
aliás
5 ch
alles

Part-of-speech tell for aliás / alles

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: aliás is anadverb and allesapronoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51948, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aliás is recorded at frequency rank #2,661, classified as anadv. alles is at rank #49,287, tagged as apron.

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 51948, this pair ranks #13,163 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of aliás vs alles

Shared letters: als. Private to "aliás": . Private to "alles": e.

"aliás" · 5 letters · shape VCVVC  ·  "alles" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • allesalels · ales · alless · allse · lales

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "aliás" and "alles" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "aliás" is an adverb and "alles" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "aliás" vs "alles" - which ranks higher?
"aliás" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,661 in our Portuguese list, against #49,287 for "alles". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "aliás" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "alles" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #13,163 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "aliás" and "alles" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "alce 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 #13,163 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