alla vs alt, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#36,313
“alla” frequency rank: #21,650
“alt” frequency rank: 57963
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	alla	alt
Definition	na	velho

Letter map: alla vs alt

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

4 ch

alla

3 ch

alt

Grammar separator: alla vs alt

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: alla is acontraction and altanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57963, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

alla is recorded at frequency rank #36,313, classified as acontraction. alt is at rank #21,650, tagged as anadj, pronounced /alt/.

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 57963, this pair ranks #9,015 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of alla vs alt

Shared letters: al. Private to "alla": -. Private to "alt": t.

"alla" · 4 letters · shape VCCV · "alt" · 3 letters · shape VCC

Known mistypes of this pair

alla ← alal · lala

Frequently Asked Questions

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

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

Which is more common, "alla" or "alt"?

"alt" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,650 in our Portuguese list, against #36,313 for "alla". 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 "alla" and "alt".

Full dictionary entry for "alla" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "alt" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #9,015 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"alla" and "alt" 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 #9,015 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.