flightvsTOWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#26,870
“flight” frequency rank
#589
“TO” frequency rank
27459
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature flight TO
Definition Flug KFZ-Kennzeichen für Torino (Turin)

Letter map: flight vs TO

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

6 ch
flight
2 ch
TO

Part-of-speech tell for flight / TO

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: flight is anoun and TOanabbrev. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27459, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

flight is recorded at frequency rank #26,870, classified as anoun, 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 27459, this pair ranks #1,801,465 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of flight vs TO

Shared letters: t. Private to "flight": fghil. Private to "TO": o.

"flight" · 6 letters · shape CCVCCC  ·  "TO" · 2 letters · shape CV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • flightfflight · filght · flgiht · fligght · flighht · flightt · fligth · flihgt

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "flight" and "TO" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "flight" is a noun and "TO" an abbrev, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "flight" or "TO"?
"TO" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #589 in our German list, against #26,870 for "flight". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "flight" 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 #1,801,465 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "flight" and "TO" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "flight 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 #1,801,465 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