ossi vs TO, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#34,842
“ossi” frequency rank: #589
“TO” frequency rank: 35431
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	ossi	TO
Definition	Plural des Substantivs osso	KFZ-Kennzeichen für Torino (Turin)

Letter map: ossi vs TO

Shared letters muted; letters that set ossi and TO apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

4 ch

ossi

2 ch

Grammar separator: ossi vs TO

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: ossi is anoun and TOanabbrev. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35431, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ossi is recorded at frequency rank #34,842, 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 35431, this pair ranks #1,640,163 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of ossi vs TO

Shared letters: o. Private to "ossi": is. Private to "TO": t.

"ossi" · 4 letters · shape VCCV · "TO" · 2 letters · shape CV

Known mistypes of this pair

ossi ← osi · osis · oßi · sosi

Frequently Asked Questions

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

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

Which is more common, "ossi" or "TO"?

"TO" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #589 in our German list, against #34,842 for "ossi". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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Full dictionary entry for "ossi" 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 #1,640,163 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"ossi" and "TO" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ossi 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 #1,640,163 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.