tore vs totes, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#2,414
“tore” frequency rank: #26,196
“totes” frequency rank: 28610
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	tore	totes
Definition	Vulva	Nominativ Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs tot

Letter map: tore vs totes

Shared letters muted; letters that set tore and totes apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch

tore

5 ch

totes

Grammar separator: tore vs totes

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: tore is anoun and totesanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28610, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

tore is recorded at frequency rank #2,414, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. totes is at rank #26,196, tagged as anadj, pronounced [ˈtoːtəs].

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 28610, this pair ranks #1,781,699 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of tore vs totes

Shared letters: eot. Private to "tore": r. Private to "totes": s.

"tore" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "totes" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

tore ← otre · toer · troe · ttore
totes ← ottes · toets · totess · totse · tottes · ttoes · ttotes

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "tore" and "totes" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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

In ordinary German text, does "tore" or "totes" show up more?

"tore" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,414 in our German list, against #26,196 for "totes". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "tore" and "totes".

Full dictionary entry for "tore" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "totes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,781,699 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"tore" and "totes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "totes vs trees". 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 #1,781,699 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.