right vs TO, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#9,445
“right” frequency rank: #589
“TO” frequency rank: 10034
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	right	TO
Definition	Recht, Anrecht	KFZ-Kennzeichen für Torino (Turin)

Letter map: right vs TO

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

5 ch

right

2 ch

Grammar separator: right vs TO

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: right is anoun and TOanabbrev. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10034, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

right is recorded at frequency rank #9,445, 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 10034, this pair ranks #1,977,105 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of right vs TO

Shared letters: t. Private to "right": ghir. Private to "TO": o.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

right ← irght · rgiht · rigght · righht · rightt · rigth · rihgt · rright

Frequently Asked Questions

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

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

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

"TO" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #589 in our German list, against #9,445 for "right". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

Full dictionary entry for "right" 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 #1,977,105 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"right" and "TO" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs right". 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 #1,977,105 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.