allvsAllahTell them apart

Quick tell: all is a adjective, Allah is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“all” is an adjective and “Allah” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#2,001
“all” frequency rank
#26,616
“Allah” frequency rank
28617
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature all Allah
Definition todo Alá

Letter map: all vs Allah

Shared letters muted; letters that set all and Allah apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

3 ch
all
5 ch
Allah

Part-of-speech tell for all / Allah

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: all is anadjective and Allahanoun. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “all” sits inside “Allah”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28617, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

all is recorded at frequency rank #2,001, classified as anadj. Allah is at rank #26,616, tagged as anoun, pronounced /aˈlaː/ ouvir^(fonte ?).

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 28617, this pair ranks #40,189 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of all vs Allah

Shared letters: al. Private to "all": -. Private to "Allah": h.

"all" · 3 letters · shape VCC  ·  "Allah" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Allahalah · alalh · allahh · allha · lalah

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "all" and "Allah" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "all" is an adjective and "Allah" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "all" vs "Allah" - which ranks higher?
"all" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,001 in our Portuguese list, against #26,616 for "Allah". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "all" and "Allah".

  • Full dictionary entry for "all" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Allah" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #40,189 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "all" and "Allah" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Allah 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 #40,189 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