spotsvstoreConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#24,933
“spots” frequency rank
#2,414
“tore” frequency rank
27347
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature spots tore
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs spot Vulva

Letter map: spots vs tore

Shared letters muted; letters that set spots and tore apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

5 ch
spots
4 ch
tore

Role in the sentence - spots and tore

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: spots is averb and toreanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27347, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

spots is recorded at frequency rank #24,933, 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 27347, this pair ranks #1,803,240 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of spots vs tore

Shared letters: ot. Private to "spots": ps. Private to "tore": er.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • spotssopts · spost · spotss · spotts · sppots · sptos · sspots
  • toreotre · toer · troe · ttore

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "spots" for "tore" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "spots" is a verb and "tore" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "spots" 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 #24,933 for "spots". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "spots" vs "tore" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "spots" 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 #1,803,240 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "spots" and "tore" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs spots". 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 #1,803,240 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