posts vs TO, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#14,390
“posts” frequency rank: #589
“TO” frequency rank: 14979
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	posts	TO
Definition	3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs post	KFZ-Kennzeichen für Torino (Turin)

Letter map: posts vs TO

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

5 ch

posts

2 ch

Part-of-speech tell for posts / TO

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: posts is averb and TOanabbrev. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14979, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

posts is recorded at frequency rank #14,390, 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 14979, this pair ranks #1,947,344 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of posts vs TO

Shared letters: ot. Private to "posts": ps. Private to "TO": -.

"posts" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC · "TO" · 2 letters · shape CV

Known mistypes of this pair

posts ← opsts · possts · postss · postts · potss · pposts · psots

Frequently Asked Questions

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

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

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

"TO" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #589 in our German list, against #14,390 for "posts". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pair "posts" vs "TO" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

Full dictionary entry for "posts" 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 #1,947,344 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"posts" and "TO" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "posts 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 #1,947,344 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.