tombvsTothWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#8,495
“tomb” frequency rank
#49,105
“Toth” frequency rank
57600
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature tomb Toth
Definition A small building, or a room within one, for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed. A surname from Hungarian.

Letter map: tomb vs Toth

Shared letters muted; letters that set tomb and Toth apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. tomb 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
tomb
4 ch
Toth

Grammar separator: tomb vs Toth

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: tomb 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 57600, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

tomb is recorded at frequency rank #8,495, classified as anoun, pronounced /tuːm/. 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 57600, this pair ranks #118,239 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of tomb vs Toth

Shared letters: ot. Private to "tomb": bm. Private to "Toth": h.

"tomb" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "Toth" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • tomb ← otmb · tmob · tobm · tombb · tommb · ttomb
  • Toth ← otth · tothh · totth · ttoh · ttoth

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "tomb" and "Toth" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "tomb" is a noun and "Toth" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "tomb" or "Toth" show up more?
"tomb" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,495 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.

After this comparison

You've compared "tomb" and "Toth". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "tomb" 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 #118,239 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "tomb" 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 #118,239 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