nextvstoreWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: next is a adjective, tore is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“next” is an adjective and “tore” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#9,246
“next” frequency rank
#2,414
“tore” frequency rank
11660
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature next tore
Definition in einer Reihe folgend, nächster Vulva

Letter map: next vs tore

Shared letters muted; letters that set next and tore apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

4 ch
next
4 ch
tore

Part-of-speech tell for next / tore

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: next is anadjective and toreanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11660, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

next is recorded at frequency rank #9,246, classified as anadj, pronounced […]. tore is at rank #2,414, tagged as anoun, 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 11660, this pair ranks #1,968,630 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of next vs tore

Shared letters: et. Private to "next": nx. Private to "tore": or.

"next" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "tore" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • nextenxt · netx · nextt · nexxt · nnext · nxet
  • toreotre · toer · troe · ttore

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "next" and "tore" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "next" is an adjective and "tore" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "next" or "tore" show up more?
"tore" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,414 in our German list, against #9,246 for "next". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "next" and "tore". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "next" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "tore" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,968,630 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "next" and "tore" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "next 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 #1,968,630 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