movingvsopenConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#42,011
“moving” frequency rank
#2,607
“open” frequency rank
44618
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature moving open
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs move etwas ist nicht geschlossen

Letter map: moving vs open

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

6 ch
moving
4 ch
open

Role in the sentence - moving and open

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: moving is averb and openanadjective. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44618, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

moving is recorded at frequency rank #42,011, 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 44618, this pair ranks #1,380,330 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of moving vs open

Shared letters: no. Private to "moving": gimv. Private to "open": ep.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • movingmmoving · moivng · movign · movingg · movinng · movnig · movving · mvoing
  • openoepn · openn · opne · oppen · poen

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "moving" and "open" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "moving" is a verb and "open" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "moving" 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 #42,011 for "moving". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "moving" 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 #1,380,330 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "moving" and "open" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "moving 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 #1,380,330 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