aliásvsamasTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#2,661
“aliás” frequency rank
#14,766
“amas” frequency rank
17427
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature aliás amas
Definition de outra maneira acumulação

Letter map: aliás vs amas

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

5 ch
aliás
4 ch
amas

Part-of-speech tell for aliás / amas

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: aliás is anadverb and amasanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17427, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aliás is recorded at frequency rank #2,661, classified as anadv. amas is at rank #14,766, 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 17427, this pair ranks #53,828 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of aliás vs amas

Shared letters: as. Private to "aliás": ilá. Private to "amas": m.

"aliás" · 5 letters · shape VCVVC  ·  "amas" · 4 letters · shape VCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • amasaams · amass · ammas · amsa · maas

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "aliás" and "amas" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "aliás" is an adverb and "amas" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "aliás" or "amas"?
"aliás" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,661 in our Portuguese list, against #14,766 for "amas". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "aliás" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "amas" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #53,828 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "aliás" and "amas" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "acs vs amas". 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 #53,828 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