Which to use
“essays” is a verb and “TO” is an abbrev - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #17,877
- “essays” frequency rank
- #589
- “TO” frequency rank
- 18466
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | essays | TO |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs essay | KFZ-Kennzeichen für Torino (Turin) |
Letter map: essays vs TO
Shared letters muted; letters that set essays and TO apart highlighted. No shared letter run.
Part-of-speech tell for essays / TO
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: essays is averb and TOanabbrev. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18466, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
essays is recorded at frequency rank #17,877, 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 18466, this pair ranks #1,917,958 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of essays vs TO
Shared letters: none. Private to "essays": aesy. Private to "TO": ot.
"essays" · 6 letters · shape VCCVVC · "TO" · 2 letters · shape CV
Known mistypes of this pair
- essays ← esasys · esays · essasy · essayss · essayys · essyas · eßays · sesays
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "essays" and "TO" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "essays" or "TO"?
After this comparison
Pair "essays" vs "TO" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "essays" 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 #1,917,958 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "essays" and "TO" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "essays 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 #1,917,958 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.