apartvsartWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: apart is a adverb, art is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#30,820
“apart” frequency rank
#2,554
“art” frequency rank
33374
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature apart art
Definition à parte, de parte * Sinônimos pt: em separado, separadamente, isoladamente, particularmente; arte

Letter map: apart vs art

Shared letters muted; letters that set apart and art apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. apart runs 5 letters (VCVCC) against art's 3 (VCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
apart
3 ch
art

Part-of-speech tell for apart / art

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: apart is anadverb and artanoun. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “art” sits inside “apart”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33374, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

apart is recorded at frequency rank #30,820, classified as anadv. art is at rank #2,554, tagged as anoun, pronounced /aR/.

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 33374, this pair ranks #34,179 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of apart vs art

Shared letters: art. Private to "apart": p. Private to "art": -.

"apart" · 5 letters · shape VCVCC  ·  "art" · 3 letters · shape VCC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "apart" and "art" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "apart" is an adverb and "art" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "apart" or "art"?
"art" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,554 in our Portuguese list, against #30,820 for "apart". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "apart" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "art" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #34,179 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "apart" and "art" 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 #34,179 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