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“greco” and “open” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#48,942
“greco” frequency rank
#2,607
“open” frequency rank
51549
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature greco open
Definition griechisch etwas ist nicht geschlossen

Letter map: greco vs open

Shared letters muted; letters that set greco and open apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. greco runs 5 letters (CCVCV) against open's 4 (VCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
greco
4 ch
open

Corpus notes: greco and open

greco and open are indexed as a confusable German pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51549, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

greco is recorded at frequency rank #48,942, classified as anadj, 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 51549, this pair ranks #1,131,222 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of greco vs open

Shared letters: eo. Private to "greco": cgr. Private to "open": np.

"greco" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV  ·  "open" · 4 letters · shape VCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • greco ← gerco · ggreco · grceo · grecco · greoc · grreco · rgeco
  • open ← oepn · openn · opne · oppen · poen

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "greco" and "open" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
In ordinary German text, does "greco" 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 #48,942 for "greco". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "greco" 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 #1,131,222 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "greco" and "open" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "greco 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 #1,131,222 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