altavsattTell them apart

Quick tell: alta is a adjective, att is a conjunction, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“alta” is an adjective and “att” is a conjunction - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#818
“alta” frequency rank
#17,701
“att” frequency rank
18519
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature alta att
Definition alto, elevado que:

Letter map: alta vs att

Shared letters muted; letters that set alta and att apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
alta
3 ch
att

Part-of-speech tell for alta / att

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: alta is anadjective and attaconjunction. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18519, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

alta is recorded at frequency rank #818, classified as anadj, pronounced /ˈal.ta/.. att is at rank #17,701, tagged as aconj.

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 18519, this pair ranks #52,459 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of alta vs att

Shared letters: at. Private to "alta": l. Private to "att": -.

"alta" · 4 letters · shape VCCV  ·  "att" · 3 letters · shape VCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • altaalat · allta · altta · atla

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "alta" and "att" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "alta" is an adjective and "att" a conjunction, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "alta" vs "att" - which ranks higher?
"alta" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #818 in our Portuguese list, against #17,701 for "att". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "alta" and "att".

  • Full dictionary entry for "alta" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "att" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #52,459 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "alta" and "att" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "acs vs att". 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 #52,459 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