to vs totó, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“to” is a particle and “totó” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#164
“to” frequency rank: #37,112
“totó” frequency rank: 37276
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	to	totó
Definition	marca o verbo seguinte como infinitivo	cão

Letter map: to vs totó

Shared letters muted; letters that set to and totó apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

2 ch

4 ch

totó

Part-of-speech tell for to / totó

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: to is aparticle and totóanoun. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “to” sits inside “totó”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37276, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

to is recorded at frequency rank #164, classified as aparticle. totó is at rank #37,112, tagged as anoun, pronounced /tɔ.ˈtɔ/.

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 37276, this pair ranks #29,371 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of to vs totó

Shared letters: ot. Private to "to": -. Private to "totó": ó.

"to" · 2 letters · shape CV · "totó" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "to" and "totó" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "to" is a particle and "totó" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "to" vs "totó" - which ranks higher?

"to" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #164 in our Portuguese list, against #37,112 for "totó". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

Full dictionary entry for "to" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "totó" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #29,371 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"to" and "totó" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "totó vs tufo". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #29,371 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.