attvsavôConfusable pair

Quick tell: att is a conjunction, avô is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#17,701
“att” frequency rank
#3,962
“avô” frequency rank
21663
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature att avô
Definition que: pai da mãe ou do pai

Letter map: att vs avô

Shared letters muted; letters that set att and avô apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

3 ch
att
3 ch
avô

Part-of-speech tell for att / avô

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: att is aconjunction and avôanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21663, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

att is recorded at frequency rank #17,701, classified as aconj. avô is at rank #3,962, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ɐ.ˈvo/.

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 21663, this pair ranks #48,535 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of att vs avô

Shared letters: a. Private to "att": t. Private to "avô": .

"att" · 3 letters · shape VCC  ·  "avô" · 3 letters · shape VCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "att" and "avô" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "att" is a conjunction and "avô" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "att" or "avô" show up more?
"avô" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,962 in our Portuguese list, against #17,701 for "att". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "att" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "avô" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #48,535 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "att" and "avô" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "acs vs att". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #48,535 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