moves vs open, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#36,510
“moves” frequency rank: #2,607
“open” frequency rank: 39117
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	moves	open
Definition	3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs move	etwas ist nicht geschlossen

Letter map: moves vs open

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

5 ch

moves

4 ch

open

Role in the sentence - moves and open

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: moves is averb and openanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39117, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

moves is recorded at frequency rank #36,510, 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 39117, this pair ranks #1,545,639 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of moves vs open

Shared letters: eo. Private to "moves": msv. Private to "open": np.

"moves" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "open" · 4 letters · shape VCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

moves ← mmoves · moevs · movess · movse · movves · mvoes · omves
open ← oepn · openn · opne · oppen · poen

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "moves" and "open" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "moves" is a verb and "open" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "moves" 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 #36,510 for "moves". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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Full dictionary entry for "moves" 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 #1,545,639 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"moves" and "open" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "moves 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 #1,545,639 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.