too

/tu/adverb

too is spelled T-O-O: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 891 times per million words in written English, the 122nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “to vs too” about 18,100 times a month (Google, United States). As an adverb, too means “Likewise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in too?

Letters	3: T-O-O
Syllables	1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	891 times per million words; the 122nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search
Pairs people search	to vs too too vs two
Sounds like	two
Rhymes with	who new two through more
Same letters	oot oto

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is too?

Too appears 891 times per million words in written English, the 122nd most frequent word form in the list.

too0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce too?

UK /tuː/
UK [tʰu̟ː]
US /tu/

Too has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-too.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with too

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

to vs too18,100 G

too vs two70 G

Sounds like: two (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with too?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as too from its last stressed vowel (/u/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: oot, oto.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

What does too mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adverb

1
Likewise.
2
Also, in addition marks a statement as equally valid as the preceding one.
There has been a cutback in federal subsidies. Rates have been increasing too.
3
To an excessive degree, more than enough indicates that the degree of a quality is more than what is needed or wanted.
Near-synonyms: extremely, unnecessarily, all too
4
colloquialTo a high degree, very.
She doesn't talk too much. I'm not too sure about this.
5
colloquialUsed to contradict a negative assertion with present and simple past forms of be, do, and auxiliary verbs
You're not old enough yet. ― I am too!
6
archaiccolloquialUsed for emphasis, without reference to any previous statement.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Too in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	aussi ((focus) likewise), trop ((degree) more than enough), tres, très ((degree) to a high degree, very – see also very), si si ((emphatic) used to contradict a negative…)
German	auch ((focus) likewise), zu, allzu ((degree) more than enough), wohl, doch ((emphatic) used to contradict a negative…)
Portuguese	também ((focus) likewise), demais, excessivamente, demasiadamente ((degree) more than enough)
Spanish	también ((focus) likewise), demasiado, demasiadamente ((degree) more than enough), muy, asaz ((degree) to a high degree, very – see also very)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does too come from?

From Middle English to (“also, in addition to”), from Old English tō (“furthermore, also, besides”), adverbial use of preposition tō (“to, into”). The sense of "in addition, also" deriving from the original meaning of "apart, separately" (compare Old English prefix tō- (“apart”)). Doublet of to; see there for more.