scansvstoreTell them apart

Quick tell: scans is a verb, tore is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#37,182
“scans” frequency rank
#2,414
“tore” frequency rank
39596
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature scans tore
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs scan Vulva

Letter map: scans vs tore

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

5 ch
scans
4 ch
tore

Part-of-speech tell for scans / tore

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: scans is averb and toreanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39596, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

scans is recorded at frequency rank #37,182, classified as averb, pronounced […]. tore is at rank #2,414, tagged as anoun, 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 39596, this pair ranks #1,532,335 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of scans vs tore

Shared letters: none. Private to "scans": acns. Private to "tore": eort.

"scans" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC  ·  "tore" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • scanscsans · sacns · scanns · scanss · scasn · sccans · scnas · sscans
  • toreotre · toer · troe · ttore

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "scans" and "tore" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "scans" is a verb and "tore" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "scans" or "tore" show up more?
"tore" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,414 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.

After this comparison

You've compared "scans" and "tore". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "scans" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "tore" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,532,335 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "scans" and "tore" 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 #1,532,335 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