TothvstourWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#49,105
“Toth” frequency rank
#1,112
“tour” frequency rank
50217
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Toth tour
Definition A surname from Hungarian. A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.

Letter map: Toth vs tour

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

4 ch
Toth
4 ch
tour

Role in the sentence - Toth and tour

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Toth is aname and touranoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50217, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Toth is recorded at frequency rank #49,105, classified as aname. 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 50217, this pair ranks #176,259 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Toth vs tour

Shared letters: ot. Private to "Toth": h. Private to "tour": ru.

"Toth" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "tour" · 4 letters · shape CVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Toth ← otth · tothh · totth · ttoh · ttoth
  • tour ← otur · toru · tourr · ttour · tuor

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Toth" and "tour" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Toth" is a name and "tour" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "Toth" or "tour" show up more?
"tour" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,112 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.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "Toth" 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 #176,259 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Toth" 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 #176,259 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