guitarvsopenTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#35,220
“guitar” frequency rank
#2,607
“open” frequency rank
37827
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature guitar open
Definition Gitarre; Musikintrument mit 6 Saiten etwas ist nicht geschlossen

Letter map: guitar vs open

Shared letters muted; letters that set guitar and open apart highlighted. No shared letter run. guitar runs 6 letters (CVVCVC) against open's 4 (VCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
guitar
4 ch
open

Part-of-speech tell for guitar / open

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: guitar is anoun and openanadjective. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37827, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

guitar is recorded at frequency rank #35,220, 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 37827, this pair ranks #1,580,070 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of guitar vs open

Shared letters: none. Private to "guitar": agirtu. Private to "open": enop.

"guitar" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC  ·  "open" · 4 letters · shape VCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • guitargguitar · giutar · guiatr · guitarr · guitra · guittar · gutiar · ugitar
  • openoepn · openn · opne · oppen · poen

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "guitar" and "open" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "guitar" is a noun and "open" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "guitar" vs "open" - which ranks higher?
"open" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,607 in our German list, against #35,220 for "guitar". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "guitar" 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 #1,580,070 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "guitar" and "open" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "guitar 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 #1,580,070 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