tutsvsvolWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#42,878
“tuts” frequency rank
#6,374
“vol” frequency rank
49252
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature tuts vol
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs tut Flug, des Tieres und der Maschine

Letter map: tuts vs vol

Shared letters muted; letters that set tuts and vol apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

4 ch
tuts
3 ch
vol

Part-of-speech tell for tuts / vol

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: tuts is averb and volanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49252, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

tuts is recorded at frequency rank #42,878, classified as averb, pronounced […]. vol is at rank #6,374, 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 49252, this pair ranks #1,218,375 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of tuts vs vol

Shared letters: none. Private to "tuts": stu. Private to "vol": lov.

"tuts" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "vol" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • tutsttus · ttuts · tutss · tutts · utts

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "tuts" and "vol" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "tuts" is a verb and "vol" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "tuts" vs "vol" - which ranks higher?
"vol" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,374 in our German list, against #42,878 for "tuts". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "tuts" and "vol".

  • Full dictionary entry for "tuts" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "vol" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,218,375 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "tuts" and "vol" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs tuts". 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 #1,218,375 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