Which to use
“office” is a noun and “TO” is an abbrev - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #5,205
- “office” frequency rank
- #589
- “TO” frequency rank
- 5794
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | office | TO |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Arbeitsraum für Verwaltung und Planung: Büro | KFZ-Kennzeichen für Torino (Turin) |
Letter map: office vs TO
Shared letters muted; letters that set office and TO apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.
Part-of-speech tell for office / TO
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: office is anoun and TOanabbrev. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 5794, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
office is recorded at frequency rank #5,205, 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 5794, this pair ranks #1,993,706 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of office vs TO
Shared letters: o. Private to "office": cefi. Private to "TO": t.
"office" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV · "TO" · 2 letters · shape CV
Known mistypes of this pair
- office ← fofice · offcie · officce · offiec · ofice · ofifce
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "office" for "TO" ever safe?
Frequency check: "office" vs "TO" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Pair "office" vs "TO" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "office" 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 #1,993,706 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "office" and "TO" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "office 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 #1,993,706 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.