Which to use
“told” is a verb and “Toth” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #268
- “told” frequency rank
- #49,105
- “Toth” frequency rank
- 49373
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | told | Toth |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | simple past and past participle of tell | A surname from Hungarian. |
Letter map: told vs Toth
Shared letters muted; letters that set told and Toth apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. told and Toth follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Part-of-speech tell for told / Toth
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: told is averb and Tothaname. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49373, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
told is recorded at frequency rank #268, classified as averb, pronounced /təʊld/. 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 49373, this pair ranks #184,250 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of told vs Toth
Shared letters: ot. Private to "told": dl. Private to "Toth": h.
"told" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "Toth" · 4 letters · shape CVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "told" and "Toth" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "told" vs "Toth" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Pair "told" vs "Toth" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "told" 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 #184,250 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "told" 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 #184,250 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.