too
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The verdict
“too” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,548) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,548
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Präsens Imperativ des Verbs tooma
Corpus desk
Index DE-too · too · German
too · rank #11,548 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,548
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH theologischen
Nearest frequency peer: theologischen (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „too“
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88,454 corpus weight
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88,453 corpus weight
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88,452 corpus weight
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What this shows Balken platzieren „too“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | too |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #11,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „too“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for too is neighbouring look-alikes ("TV", "tu", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced […]. Frequency #11,548 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Präsens Imperativ des Verbs tooma".
No misspelling variants are generated for too in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TV", "tu", "Ts", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is too, spelled T-O-O.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Präsens Imperativ des Verbs tooma
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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