Tofu vs too, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#25,791
“Tofu” frequency rank: #11,548
“too” frequency rank: 37339
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	Tofu	too
Definition	eine Art Quark aus Sojabohnenmilch	2. Person Singular Präsens Imperativ des Verbs tooma

Letter map: Tofu vs too

Shared letters muted; letters that set Tofu and too apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch

Tofu

3 ch

too

Grammar separator: Tofu vs too

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Tofu is anoun and tooaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37339, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Tofu is recorded at frequency rank #25,791, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈtoːfu]. too is at rank #11,548, tagged as averb, 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 37339, this pair ranks #1,592,809 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Tofu vs too

Shared letters: ot. Private to "Tofu": fu. Private to "too": -.

"Tofu" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "too" · 3 letters · shape CVV

Known mistypes of this pair

Tofu ← otfu · tfou · toffu · touf · ttofu

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Tofu" for "too" ever safe?

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

In ordinary German text, does "Tofu" or "too" show up more?

"too" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,548 in our German list, against #25,791 for "Tofu". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "Tofu" and "too". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "Tofu" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "too" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,592,809 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"Tofu" and "too" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Tofu vs Tons". 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 #1,592,809 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.