hotelsvsopenWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#3,592
“hotels” frequency rank
#2,607
“open” frequency rank
6199
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hotels open
Definition Plural des Substantivs hotel etwas ist nicht geschlossen

Letter map: hotels vs open

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

6 ch
hotels
4 ch
open

Part-of-speech tell for hotels / open

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hotels is anoun and openanadjective. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 6199, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hotels is recorded at frequency rank #3,592, 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 6199, this pair ranks #1,992,402 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of hotels vs open

Shared letters: eo. Private to "hotels": hlst. Private to "open": np.

"hotels" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC  ·  "open" · 4 letters · shape VCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hotelshhotels · hoetls · hotells · hotelss · hotesl · hotles · hottels · htoels
  • openoepn · openn · opne · oppen · poen

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "hotels" and "open" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hotels" is a noun and "open" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "hotels" 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 #3,592 for "hotels". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "hotels" 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 #1,992,402 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hotels" and "open" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hotels 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 #1,992,402 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