todovstutoWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: todo is a adjective, tuto is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#48,831
“todo” frequency rank
#15,056
“tuto” frequency rank
63887
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature todo tuto
Definition Entier, total, tout. Tutoriel.

Where the eye mixes todo and tuto

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. todo and tuto follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
todo
4 ch
tuto

Look-alike desk: todo vs tuto

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: todo is [ˈto.ðo] while tuto is \ty.to\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63887, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

todo is recorded at frequency rank #48,831, classified as anadj, pronounced [ˈto.ðo]. tuto is at rank #15,056, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ty.to\.

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 63887, this pair ranks #79,732 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of todo vs tuto

Shared letters: ot. Private to "todo": d. Private to "tuto": u.

"todo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "tuto" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • todo ← otdo · tdoo · toddo · tood · ttodo
  • tuto ← ttuo · ttuto · tutto · utto

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "todo" and "tuto" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "todo" is an adjective and "tuto" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "todo" or "tuto" show up more?
"tuto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,056 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

Eye-level mix-up between "todo" and "tuto" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "todo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "tuto" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #79,732 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "todo" and "tuto" 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 #79,732 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