communevsopenTell them apart

Quick tell: commune is a verb, open is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“commune” is a verb and “open” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#45,835
“commune” frequency rank
#2,607
“open” frequency rank
48442
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature commune open
Definition sich über sehr vertrauliche Sachen mit jemandem unterhalten etwas ist nicht geschlossen

Letter map: commune vs open

Shared letters muted; letters that set commune and open apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

7 ch
commune
4 ch
open

Role in the sentence - commune and open

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: commune is averb and openanadjective. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48442, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

commune is recorded at frequency rank #45,835, classified as averb, pronounced […]. open is at rank #2,607, tagged as anadj, pronounced […].

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 48442, this pair ranks #1,248,428 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of commune vs open

Shared letters: eno. Private to "commune": cmu. Private to "open": p.

"commune" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV  ·  "open" · 4 letters · shape VCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • communeccommune · cmomune · commnue · commuen · communne · comumne · comune · ocmmune
  • openoepn · openn · opne · oppen · poen

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "commune" and "open" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "commune" is a verb and "open" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "commune" or "open"?
"open" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,607 in our German list, against #45,835 for "commune". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "commune" vs "open" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "commune" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "open" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,248,428 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "commune" and "open" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "commune vs puzzles". 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 #1,248,428 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list