sources vs tore, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#47,003
“sources” frequency rank: #2,414
“tore” frequency rank: 49417
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	sources	tore
Definition	3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs source	Vulva

Letter map: sources vs tore

Shared letters muted; letters that set sources and tore apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

7 ch

sources

4 ch

tore

Part-of-speech tell for sources / tore

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: sources is averb and toreanoun. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49417, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sources is recorded at frequency rank #47,003, 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 49417, this pair ranks #1,212,311 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of sources vs tore

Shared letters: eor. Private to "sources": csu. Private to "tore": t.

"sources" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC · "tore" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

sources ← osurces · soruces · soucres · sourcces · sourcess · sourcse · sourecs · sourrces
tore ← otre · toer · troe · ttore

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "sources" for "tore" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "sources" is a verb and "tore" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "sources" or "tore"?

"tore" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,414 in our German list, against #47,003 for "sources". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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Full dictionary entry for "sources" 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 #1,212,311 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"sources" and "tore" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs sources". 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 #1,212,311 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.