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.
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?
Which is more common, "apart" or "art"?
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.