leaks vs TO, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#28,748
“leaks” frequency rank: #589
“TO” frequency rank: 29337
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	leaks	TO
Definition	3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs leak	KFZ-Kennzeichen für Torino (Turin)

Letter map: leaks vs TO

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

5 ch

leaks

2 ch

Part-of-speech tell for leaks / TO

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: leaks is averb and TOanabbrev. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29337, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

leaks is recorded at frequency rank #28,748, 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 29337, this pair ranks #1,768,689 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of leaks vs TO

Shared letters: none. Private to "leaks": aekls. Private to "TO": ot.

"leaks" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC · "TO" · 2 letters · shape CV

Known mistypes of this pair

leaks ← elaks · laeks · leakks · leakss · leask · lekas · lleaks

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "leaks" and "TO" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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

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

"TO" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #589 in our German list, against #28,748 for "leaks". 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 "leaks" and "TO".

Full dictionary entry for "leaks" 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 #1,768,689 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"leaks" and "TO" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "leaks 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 #1,768,689 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.