posted vs TO, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#44,144
“posted” frequency rank: #589
“TO” frequency rank: 44733
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	posted	TO
Definition	Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs post	KFZ-Kennzeichen für Torino (Turin)

Letter map: posted vs TO

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

6 ch

posted

2 ch

Grammar separator: posted vs TO

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: posted is averb and TOanabbrev. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44733, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

posted is recorded at frequency rank #44,144, 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 44733, this pair ranks #1,376,494 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of posted vs TO

Shared letters: ot. Private to "posted": deps. Private to "TO": -.

"posted" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "TO" · 2 letters · shape CV

Known mistypes of this pair

posted ← opsted · posetd · possted · postde · postedd · postted · potsed · pposted

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "posted" for "TO" ever safe?

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

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

"TO" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #589 in our German list, against #44,144 for "posted". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "posted" and "TO". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "posted" 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 #1,376,494 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"posted" and "TO" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "posted 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 #1,376,494 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.