coravsTOTell them apart

Quick tell: cora is a verb, TO is an abbrev, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#28,594
“cora” frequency rank
#589
“TO” frequency rank
29183
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cora TO
Definition 3. Person Singular Präsens Indikativ des Verbs corar KFZ-Kennzeichen für Torino (Turin)

Letter map: cora vs TO

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

4 ch
cora
2 ch
TO

Role in the sentence - cora and TO

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: cora is averb and TOanabbrev. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29183, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cora is recorded at frequency rank #28,594, 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 29183, this pair ranks #1,771,500 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of cora vs TO

Shared letters: o. Private to "cora": acr. Private to "TO": t.

"cora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "TO" · 2 letters · shape CV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • coraccora · coar · corra · croa · ocra

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "cora" and "TO" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "cora" is a verb and "TO" an abbrev, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "cora" or "TO"?
"TO" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #589 in our German list, against #28,594 for "cora". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "cora" and "TO".

  • Full dictionary entry for "cora" 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 #1,771,500 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cora" and "TO" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cora 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 #1,771,500 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list