lauda vs TO, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#24,813
“lauda” frequency rank: #589
“TO” frequency rank: 25402
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	lauda	TO
Definition	Partitiv Singular des Substantivs laud „Tisch“	KFZ-Kennzeichen für Torino (Turin)

Letter map: lauda vs TO

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

5 ch

lauda

2 ch

Role in the sentence - lauda and TO

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: lauda is anoun and TOanabbrev. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25402, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

lauda is recorded at frequency rank #24,813, 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 25402, this pair ranks #1,833,865 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of lauda vs TO

Shared letters: none. Private to "lauda": adlu. Private to "TO": ot.

"lauda" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV · "TO" · 2 letters · shape CV

Known mistypes of this pair

lauda ← aluda · ladua · lauad · laudda · llauda · luada

Frequently Asked Questions

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

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

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

"TO" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #589 in our German list, against #24,813 for "lauda". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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

Full dictionary entry for "lauda" 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 #1,833,865 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"lauda" and "TO" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lauda 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 #1,833,865 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.