too
/tuː/
"too" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“too” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #121) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #121
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Likewise.
Corpus desk
Index EN-too · too · English
too · rank #121 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #121
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH day
Nearest frequency peer: day (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “too”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- years
years
99,883 corpus weight
- being
being
99,882 corpus weight
- day
day
99,881 corpus weight
- too
too
99,880 corpus weight
- going
going
99,879 corpus weight
- before
before
99,878 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “too” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | too |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /tuː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “too” sits in English frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for too is neighbouring look-alikes ("TV", "TX", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced /tuː/. Frequency #121 among 3,151 “T” headwords. 6 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for too in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TV", "TX", "Tu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: 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 Englis… The correct English form is too, spelled T-O-O.
Definition
- 1Likewise.
- 2Also, in addition marks a statement as equally valid as the preceding one.
- 3To an excessive degree, more than enough indicates that the degree of a quality is more than what is needed or wanted.
- 4To a high degree, very.
- 5Used to contradict a negative assertion with present and simple past forms of be, do, and auxiliary verbs
- 6Used for emphasis, without reference to any previous statement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how too appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.
Etymology
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.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.