broadcast vs TO, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#45,189
“broadcast” frequency rank: #589
“TO” frequency rank: 45778
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	broadcast	TO
Definition	eine Radio-/ Fernsehsendung ausstrahlen, übertragen	KFZ-Kennzeichen für Torino (Turin)

Letter map: broadcast vs TO

Shared letters muted; letters that set broadcast and TO apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

9 ch

broadcast

2 ch

Role in the sentence - broadcast and TO

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: broadcast is averb and TOanabbrev. On the page they differ by 7 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45778, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

broadcast is recorded at frequency rank #45,189, 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 45778, this pair ranks #1,341,529 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of broadcast vs TO

Shared letters: ot. Private to "broadcast": abcdrs. Private to "TO": -.

"broadcast" · 9 letters · shape CCVVCCVCC · "TO" · 2 letters · shape CV

Known mistypes of this pair

broadcast ← bbroadcast · boradcast · braodcast · broacdast · broadacst · broadcasst · broadcastt · broadcats

Frequently Asked Questions

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

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

In ordinary German text, does "broadcast" or "TO" show up more?

"TO" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #589 in our German list, against #45,189 for "broadcast". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pair "broadcast" vs "TO" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

Full dictionary entry for "broadcast" 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 #1,341,529 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"broadcast" and "TO" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "broadcast 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 #1,341,529 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.