tollvsTothWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: toll is a noun, Toth is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#6,304
“toll” frequency rank
#49,105
“Toth” frequency rank
55409
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature toll Toth
Definition A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc. A surname from Hungarian.

Letter map: toll vs Toth

Shared letters muted; letters that set toll and Toth apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. toll and Toth follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
toll
4 ch
Toth

Grammar separator: toll vs Toth

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: toll is anoun and Tothaname. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55409, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

toll is recorded at frequency rank #6,304, classified as anoun, pronounced /təʊl/. 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 55409, this pair ranks #133,854 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of toll vs Toth

Shared letters: ot. Private to "toll": l. Private to "Toth": h.

"toll" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "Toth" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • tollotll · tlol · ttoll
  • Tothotth · tothh · totth · ttoh · ttoth

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "toll" for "Toth" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "toll" is a noun and "Toth" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "toll" or "Toth" show up more?
"toll" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,304 in our English list, against #49,105 for "Toth". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "toll" vs "Toth" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "toll" 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 #133,854 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "toll" 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 #133,854 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list