ordersvstoreWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#49,941
“orders” frequency rank
#2,414
“tore” frequency rank
52355
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature orders tore
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs order Vulva

Letter map: orders vs tore

Shared letters muted; letters that set orders and tore apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

6 ch
orders
4 ch
tore

Part-of-speech tell for orders / tore

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: orders is averb and toreanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52355, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

orders is recorded at frequency rank #49,941, classified as averb, 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 52355, this pair ranks #1,100,116 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of orders vs tore

Shared letters: eor. Private to "orders": ds. Private to "tore": t.

"orders" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCC  ·  "tore" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • ordersodrers · ordders · orderrs · orderss · ordesr · ordres · oredrs · orrders
  • toreotre · toer · troe · ttore

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "orders" and "tore" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "orders" is a verb and "tore" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "orders" or "tore"?
"tore" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,414 in our German list, against #49,941 for "orders". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pair "orders" vs "tore" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "orders" 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 #1,100,116 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "orders" and "tore" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "orders 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 #1,100,116 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