strong vs TO, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#20,073
“strong” frequency rank: #589
“TO” frequency rank: 20662
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	strong	TO
Definition	stark	KFZ-Kennzeichen für Torino (Turin)

Letter map: strong vs TO

Shared letters muted; letters that set strong and TO apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

6 ch

strong

2 ch

Part-of-speech tell for strong / TO

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: strong is anadjective and TOanabbrev. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20662, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

strong is recorded at frequency rank #20,073, classified as anadj, 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 20662, this pair ranks #1,895,201 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of strong vs TO

Shared letters: ot. Private to "strong": gnrs. Private to "TO": -.

"strong" · 6 letters · shape CCCVCC · "TO" · 2 letters · shape CV

Known mistypes of this pair

strong ← srtong · sstrong · storng · strnog · strogn · strongg · stronng · strrong

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "strong" and "TO" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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

Which is more common, "strong" or "TO"?

"TO" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #589 in our German list, against #20,073 for "strong". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

Full dictionary entry for "strong" 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 #1,895,201 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"strong" and "TO" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs strong". 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 #1,895,201 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.