strikes vs TO, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#47,030
“strikes” frequency rank: #589
“TO” frequency rank: 47619
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Letter map: strikes vs TO

Shared letters muted; letters that set strikes and TO apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

7 ch

strikes

2 ch

Role in the sentence - strikes and TO

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: strikes is averb and TOanabbrev. On the page they differ by 5 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47619, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

strikes is recorded at frequency rank #47,030, 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 47619, this pair ranks #1,277,992 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of strikes vs TO

Shared letters: t. Private to "strikes": eikrs. Private to "TO": o.

"strikes" · 7 letters · shape CCCVCVC · "TO" · 2 letters · shape CV

Known mistypes of this pair

strikes ← srtikes · sstrikes · stirkes · strikess · strikkes · strikse · strkies · strrikes

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "strikes" for "TO" ever safe?

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

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

"TO" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #589 in our German list, against #47,030 for "strikes". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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

Full dictionary entry for "strikes" 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 #1,277,992 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"strikes" and "TO" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs strikes". 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 #1,277,992 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.