residence vs TO, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#42,763
“residence” frequency rank: #589
“TO” frequency rank: 43352
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	residence	TO
Definition	Wohnort, Wohnsitz, Residenz	KFZ-Kennzeichen für Torino (Turin)

Letter map: residence vs TO

Shared letters muted; letters that set residence and TO apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

9 ch

residence

2 ch

Role in the sentence - residence and TO

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: residence is anoun and TOanabbrev. On the page they differ by 7 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43352, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

residence is recorded at frequency rank #42,763, 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 43352, this pair ranks #1,420,784 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of residence vs TO

Shared letters: none. Private to "residence": cdeinrs. Private to "TO": ot.

"residence" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCCV · "TO" · 2 letters · shape CV

Known mistypes of this pair

residence ← ersidence · reisdence · resdience · residdence · residecne · residencce · residenec · residennce

Frequently Asked Questions

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

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

Frequency check: "residence" vs "TO" - which ranks higher?

"TO" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #589 in our German list, against #42,763 for "residence". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "residence" and "TO".

Full dictionary entry for "residence" 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 #1,420,784 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"residence" and "TO" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs residence". 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 #1,420,784 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.