spaces vs TO, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#38,421
“spaces” frequency rank: #589
“TO” frequency rank: 39010
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Letter map: spaces vs TO

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

6 ch

spaces

2 ch

Role in the sentence - spaces and TO

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: spaces is averb and TOanabbrev. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39010, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

spaces is recorded at frequency rank #38,421, 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 39010, this pair ranks #1,548,584 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of spaces vs TO

Shared letters: none. Private to "spaces": aceps. Private to "TO": ot.

"spaces" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC · "TO" · 2 letters · shape CV

Known mistypes of this pair

spaces ← psaces · sapces · spacces · spacess · spacse · spaecs · spcaes · sppaces

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "spaces" and "TO" be used interchangeably?

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

In ordinary German text, does "spaces" or "TO" show up more?

"TO" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #589 in our German list, against #38,421 for "spaces". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

Full dictionary entry for "spaces" 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 #1,548,584 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"spaces" and "TO" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs spaces". 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 #1,548,584 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.