FederervsopenConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#32,030
“Federer” frequency rank
#2,607
“open” frequency rank
34637
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Federer open
Definition deutschsprachiger Nachname, Familienname etwas ist nicht geschlossen

Letter map: Federer vs open

Shared letters muted; letters that set Federer and open apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

7 ch
Federer
4 ch
open

Role in the sentence - Federer and open

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Federer is aname and openanadjective. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34637, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Federer is recorded at frequency rank #32,030, classified as aname, 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 34637, this pair ranks #1,658,717 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Federer vs open

Shared letters: e. Private to "Federer": dfr. Private to "open": nop.

"Federer" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC  ·  "open" · 4 letters · shape VCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Federerefderer · fdeerer · fedderer · fedeerr · federerr · federre · federrer · fedreer
  • openoepn · openn · opne · oppen · poen

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Federer" for "open" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Federer" is a name and "open" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Federer" or "open" show up more?
"open" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,607 in our German list, against #32,030 for "Federer". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "Federer" 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 #1,658,717 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Federer" and "open" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Federer 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 #1,658,717 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