alles vs ally, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#49,287
“alles” frequency rank: #15,249
“ally” frequency rank: 64536
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	alles	ally
Definition	tudo, todos	aliado:

Letter map: alles vs ally

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

5 ch

alles

4 ch

ally

Part-of-speech tell for alles / ally

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: alles is apronoun and allyanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 64536, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

alles is recorded at frequency rank #49,287, classified as apron. ally is at rank #15,249, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈæ.laɪ/.

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 64536, this pair ranks #5,738 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of alles vs ally

Shared letters: al. Private to "alles": es. Private to "ally": y.

"alles" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC · "ally" · 4 letters · shape VCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

alles ← alels · ales · alless · allse · lales
ally ← allyy · aly · alyl · laly

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "alles" and "ally" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "alles" is a pronoun and "ally" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary Portuguese text, does "alles" or "ally" show up more?

"ally" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,249 in our Portuguese list, against #49,287 for "alles". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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Full dictionary entry for "alles" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "ally" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #5,738 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"alles" and "ally" 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 #5,738 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.