tomavstourTell them apart

Which to use

“toma” and “tour” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#49,101
“toma” frequency rank
#1,112
“tour” frequency rank
50213
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature toma tour
Definition A semi-hard Italian cheese from Piedmont A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.

Letter map: toma vs tour

Shared letters muted; letters that set toma and tour apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. toma (CVCV) and tour (CVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

4 ch
toma
4 ch
tour

Pair insight - toma / tour

toma and tour are indexed as a confusable English pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50213, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

toma is recorded at frequency rank #49,101, classified as anoun. tour is at rank #1,112, tagged as anoun, pronounced /tɔː(ɹ)/.

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 50213, this pair ranks #176,296 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of toma vs tour

Shared letters: ot. Private to "toma": am. Private to "tour": ru.

"toma" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "tour" · 4 letters · shape CVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • toma ← otma · tmoa · toam · tomma · ttoma
  • tour ← otur · toru · tourr · ttour · tuor

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "toma" for "tour" ever safe?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "toma" vs "tour" - which ranks higher?
"tour" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,112 in our English list, against #49,101 for "toma". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "toma" vs "tour" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "toma" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "tour" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #176,296 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "toma" and "tour" 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 #176,296 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