TothvstruthTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#49,105
“Toth” frequency rank
#960
“truth” frequency rank
50065
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Toth truth
Definition A surname from Hungarian. True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.

Letter map: Toth vs truth

Shared letters muted; letters that set Toth and truth apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch
Toth
5 ch
truth

Grammar separator: Toth vs truth

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Toth is aname and truthanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50065, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Toth is recorded at frequency rank #49,105, classified as aname. truth is at rank #960, tagged as anoun, pronounced /tɹuːθ/.

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 50065, this pair ranks #177,680 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Toth vs truth

Shared letters: ht. Private to "Toth": o. Private to "truth": ru.

"Toth" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "truth" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Tothotth · tothh · totth · ttoh · ttoth
  • truthrtuth · trruth · trtuh · truht · truthh · trutth · ttruth · turth

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Toth" for "truth" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Toth" is a name and "truth" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "Toth" or "truth"?
"truth" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #960 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

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "Toth" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "truth" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #177,680 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Toth" and "truth" 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 #177,680 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