topvsTothWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#244
“top” frequency rank
#49,105
“Toth” frequency rank
49349
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature top Toth
Definition The highest or uppermost part of something. A surname from Hungarian.

Letter map: top vs Toth

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

3 ch
top
4 ch
Toth

Grammar separator: top vs Toth

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: top is anoun and Tothaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49349, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

top is recorded at frequency rank #244, classified as anoun, pronounced /tɒp/. 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 49349, this pair ranks #184,478 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of top vs Toth

Shared letters: ot. Private to "top": p. Private to "Toth": h.

"top" · 3 letters · shape CVC  ·  "Toth" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Tothotth · tothh · totth · ttoh · ttoth

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "top" and "Toth" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "top" is a noun and "Toth" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "top" or "Toth" show up more?
"top" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #244 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

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "top" 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 #184,478 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "top" 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 #184,478 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