kippingvsopenWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#32,622
“kipping” frequency rank
#2,607
“open” frequency rank
35229
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature kipping open
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs kip etwas ist nicht geschlossen

Letter map: kipping vs open

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

7 ch
kipping
4 ch
open

Grammar separator: kipping vs open

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: kipping is averb and openanadjective. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35229, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

kipping is recorded at frequency rank #32,622, classified as averb, 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 35229, this pair ranks #1,644,915 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of kipping vs open

Shared letters: np. Private to "kipping": gik. Private to "open": eo.

"kipping" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC  ·  "open" · 4 letters · shape VCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • kippingikpping · kiping · kipipng · kippign · kippingg · kippinng · kippnig · kkipping
  • openoepn · openn · opne · oppen · poen

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "kipping" and "open" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "kipping" is a verb and "open" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "kipping" 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 #32,622 for "kipping". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "kipping" 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 #1,644,915 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "kipping" and "open" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "kipping 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 #1,644,915 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