are vs atl, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“are” and “atl” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#4,038
“are” frequency rank: #40,900
“atl” frequency rank: 44938
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	are	atl
Definition	unidade de medida de área equivalente a 100 metros quadrados	água

Where the eye mixes are and atl

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 1 letter in sequence.

3 ch

are

3 ch

atl

Look-alike desk: are vs atl

A purely visual mix-up. are (/ˈa.ɾe/) and atl (/ˈaːt͡ɬ/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44938, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

are is recorded at frequency rank #4,038, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈa.ɾe/. atl is at rank #40,900, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈaːt͡ɬ/.

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 44938, this pair ranks #20,491 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of are vs atl

Shared letters: a. Private to "are": er. Private to "atl": lt.

"are" · 3 letters · shape VCV · "atl" · 3 letters · shape VCC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "are" and "atl" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No. They are said differently (/ˈa.ɾe/ versus /ˈaːt͡ɬ/) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.

Frequency check: "are" vs "atl" - which ranks higher?

"are" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,038 in our Portuguese list, against #40,900 for "atl". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "are" and "atl" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

Full dictionary entry for "are" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "atl" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #20,491 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"are" and "atl" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "acs vs atl". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #20,491 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.