amasvsapósConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#14,766
“amas” frequency rank
#187
“após” frequency rank
14953
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature amas após
Definition acumulação em seguimento

Letter map: amas vs após

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

4 ch
amas
4 ch
após

Part-of-speech tell for amas / após

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: amas is anoun and apósanadverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14953, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

amas is recorded at frequency rank #14,766, classified as anoun. após is at rank #187, tagged as anadv, pronounced /ɐ.ˈpɔʃ/.

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 14953, this pair ranks #57,003 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of amas vs após

Shared letters: as. Private to "amas": m. Private to "após": .

"amas" · 4 letters · shape VCVC  ·  "após" · 4 letters · shape VCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • amasaams · amass · ammas · amsa · maas

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "amas" and "após" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "amas" is a noun and "após" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "amas" or "após" show up more?
"após" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #187 in our Portuguese list, against #14,766 for "amas". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pair "amas" vs "após" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "amas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "após" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #57,003 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "amas" and "após" 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 #57,003 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