scans vs TO, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#37,182
“scans” frequency rank: #589
“TO” frequency rank: 37771
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Letter map: scans vs TO

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

5 ch

scans

2 ch

Role in the sentence - scans and TO

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: scans is averb and TOanabbrev. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37771, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

scans is recorded at frequency rank #37,182, 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 37771, this pair ranks #1,581,450 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of scans vs TO

Shared letters: none. Private to "scans": acns. Private to "TO": ot.

"scans" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC · "TO" · 2 letters · shape CV

Known mistypes of this pair

scans ← csans · sacns · scanns · scanss · scasn · sccans · scnas · sscans

Frequently Asked Questions

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

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

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

"TO" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #589 in our German list, against #37,182 for "scans". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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

Full dictionary entry for "scans" 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 #1,581,450 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"scans" and "TO" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs scans". 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 #1,581,450 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.