added vs TO, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“added” is a verb and “TO” is an abbrev - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#46,448
“added” frequency rank: #589
“TO” frequency rank: 47037
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	added	TO
Definition	Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs add	KFZ-Kennzeichen für Torino (Turin)

Letter map: added vs TO

Shared letters muted; letters that set added and TO apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

5 ch

added

2 ch

Part-of-speech tell for added / TO

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: added is averb and TOanabbrev. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47037, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

added is recorded at frequency rank #46,448, classified as averb, pronounced […]. TO is at rank #589, tagged as anabbrev, pronounced […].

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 47037, this pair ranks #1,298,382 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of added vs TO

Shared letters: none. Private to "added": ade. Private to "TO": ot.

"added" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC · "TO" · 2 letters · shape CV

Known mistypes of this pair

added ← addde · addedd · aded · adedd · daded

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "added" and "TO" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "added" is a verb and "TO" an abbrev, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "added" or "TO"?

"TO" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #589 in our German list, against #46,448 for "added". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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Full dictionary entry for "added" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "TO" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,298,382 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"added" and "TO" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "added vs puzzles". 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 #1,298,382 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.