savasvsTOTell them apart

Quick tell: savas is a unknown, TO is an abbrev, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#43,459
“savas” frequency rank
#589
“TO” frequency rank
44048
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature savas TO
Definition Genitiv Singular des Pronomens sava „eigene“ KFZ-Kennzeichen für Torino (Turin)

Letter map: savas vs TO

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

5 ch
savas
2 ch
TO

Role in the sentence - savas and TO

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: savas is anunknown and TOanabbrev. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44048, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

savas is recorded at frequency rank #43,459, classified as anunknown, 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 44048, this pair ranks #1,398,713 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of savas vs TO

Shared letters: none. Private to "savas": asv. Private to "TO": ot.

"savas" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "TO" · 2 letters · shape CV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • savasasvas · saavs · savass · savsa · savvas · ssavas · svaas

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "savas" for "TO" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "savas" is an unknown and "TO" an abbrev, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "savas" or "TO"?
"TO" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #589 in our German list, against #43,459 for "savas". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "savas" 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 #1,398,713 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "savas" and "TO" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs savas". 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 #1,398,713 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list