arte vs att, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“arte” is a noun and “att” is a conjunction - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#682
“arte” frequency rank: #17,701
“att” frequency rank: 18383
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	arte	att
Definition	forma de expressão subjetiva do ser humano	que:

Letter map: arte vs att

Shared letters muted; letters that set arte and att apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch

arte

3 ch

att

Role in the sentence - arte and att

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: arte is anoun and attaconjunction. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18383, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

arte is recorded at frequency rank #682, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈaxt͡ʃi/. att is at rank #17,701, tagged as aconj.

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 18383, this pair ranks #52,613 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of arte vs att

Shared letters: at. Private to "arte": er. Private to "att": -.

"arte" · 4 letters · shape VCCV · "att" · 3 letters · shape VCC

Known mistypes of this pair

arte ← aret · arrte · artte · atre

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "arte" and "att" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "arte" is a noun and "att" a conjunction, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "arte" vs "att" - which ranks higher?

"arte" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #682 in our Portuguese list, against #17,701 for "att". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "arte" and "att". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "arte" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "att" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #52,613 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"arte" and "att" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "acs vs att". 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 #52,613 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.