Which to use
“guts” is a noun and “open” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #30,595
- “guts” frequency rank
- #2,607
- “open” frequency rank
- 33202
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | guts | open |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Plural des Substantivs gut | etwas ist nicht geschlossen |
Letter map: guts vs open
Shared letters muted; letters that set guts and open apart highlighted. No shared letter run.
Part-of-speech tell for guts / open
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: guts is anoun and openanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33202, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
guts is recorded at frequency rank #30,595, 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 33202, this pair ranks #1,691,067 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of guts vs open
Shared letters: none. Private to "guts": gstu. Private to "open": enop.
"guts" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "open" · 4 letters · shape VCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "guts" and "open" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary German text, does "guts" or "open" show up more?
Useful next steps
Pair "guts" vs "open" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "guts" 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 #1,691,067 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "guts" and "open" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "guts 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 #1,691,067 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.