community vs open, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#2,760
“community” frequency rank: #2,607
“open” frequency rank: 5367
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	community	open
Definition	politische Gemeinde	etwas ist nicht geschlossen

Letter map: community vs open

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

9 ch

community

4 ch

open

Grammar separator: community vs open

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: community is anoun and openanadjective. On the page they differ by 5 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 5367, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

community is recorded at frequency rank #2,760, classified as anoun, 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 5367, this pair ranks #1,994,973 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of community vs open

Shared letters: no. Private to "community": cimtuy. Private to "open": ep.

"community" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVCV · "open" · 4 letters · shape VCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

community ← ccommunity · cmomunity · commnuity · commuinty · communitty · communityy · communiyt · communnity
open ← oepn · openn · opne · oppen · poen

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "community" and "open" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "community" is a noun and "open" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "community" or "open"?

"open" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,607 in our German list, against #2,760 for "community". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "community" and "open". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "community" 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 #1,994,973 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"community" and "open" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "community 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 #1,994,973 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.