ToddvstodoTell them apart

Quick tell: Todd is a name, todo is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Todd” is a name and “todo” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#12,271
“Todd” frequency rank
#48,831
“todo” frequency rank
61102
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Todd todo
Definition Nom de famille. Entier, total, tout.

Letter map: Todd vs todo

Shared letters muted; letters that set Todd and todo apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch
Todd
4 ch
todo

Part-of-speech tell for Todd / todo

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Todd is aname and todoanadjective. On the page they differ by a single letter - d in “Todd” becomes o in “todo”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61102, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Todd is recorded at frequency rank #12,271, classified as aname. todo is at rank #48,831, tagged as anadj, pronounced [ˈto.ðo].

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 61102, this pair ranks #94,061 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Todd vs todo

Shared letters: dot. Private to "Todd": -. Private to "todo": -.

"Todd" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "todo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Toddotdd · tdod · tod · ttodd
  • todootdo · tdoo · toddo · tood · ttodo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Todd" for "todo" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Todd" is a name and "todo" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Todd" vs "todo" - which ranks higher?
"Todd" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,271 in our French list, against #48,831 for "todo". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "Todd" and "todo".

  • Full dictionary entry for "Todd" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "todo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #94,061 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Todd" and "todo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tad vs todo". 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 #94,061 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list