APA vs apart, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“APA” is an abbrev and “apart” is an adverb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#23,196
“APA” frequency rank: #30,820
“apart” frequency rank: 54016
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	APA	apart
Definition	área de proteção ambiental	à parte, de parte * Sinônimos pt: em separado, separadamente, isoladamente, particularmente;

Letter map: APA vs apart

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

3 ch

APA

5 ch

apart

Role in the sentence - APA and apart

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: APA is anabbrev and apartanadverb. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “APA” sits inside “apart”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54016, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

APA is recorded at frequency rank #23,196, classified as anabbrev. apart is at rank #30,820, tagged as anadv.

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 54016, this pair ranks #11,617 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of APA vs apart

Shared letters: ap. Private to "APA": -. Private to "apart": rt.

"APA" · 3 letters · shape VCV · "apart" · 5 letters · shape VCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

apart ← aaprt · aparrt · apartt · apatr · appart · aprat · paart

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "APA" for "apart" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "APA" is an abbrev and "apart" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "APA" vs "apart" - which ranks higher?

"APA" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #23,196 in our Portuguese list, against #30,820 for "apart". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "APA" vs "apart" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

Full dictionary entry for "APA" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "apart" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #11,617 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"APA" and "apart" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "apart vs atar". 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 #11,617 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.