to vs Toth, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“to” is a particle and “Toth” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#2
“to” frequency rank: #49,105
“Toth” frequency rank: 49107
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	to	Toth
Definition	A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.	A surname from Hungarian.

Letter map: to vs Toth

Shared letters muted; letters that set to and Toth apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

2 ch

4 ch

Toth

Grammar separator: to vs Toth

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: to is aparticle and Tothaname. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “to” sits inside “Toth”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49107, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

to is recorded at frequency rank #2, classified as aparticle, pronounced /tuː/. Toth is at rank #49,105, tagged as aname.

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 49107, this pair ranks #186,762 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of to vs Toth

Shared letters: ot. Private to "to": -. Private to "Toth": h.

"to" · 2 letters · shape CV · "Toth" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

Toth ← otth · tothh · totth · ttoh · ttoth

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "to" for "Toth" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "to" is a particle and "Toth" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "to" vs "Toth" - which ranks higher?

"to" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2 in our English list, against #49,105 for "Toth". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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Full dictionary entry for "to" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "Toth" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #186,762 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"to" and "Toth" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "toma vs Toth". 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 #186,762 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.