notenvsopenConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#5,014
“noten” frequency rank
#2,607
“open” frequency rank
7621
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature noten open
Definition Nominativ Singular bestimmte Form des Substantivs not etwas ist nicht geschlossen

Letter map: noten vs open

Shared letters muted; letters that set noten and open apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
noten
4 ch
open

Part-of-speech tell for noten / open

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: noten is anoun and openanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7621, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

noten is recorded at frequency rank #5,014, 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 7621, this pair ranks #1,987,505 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of noten vs open

Shared letters: eno. Private to "noten": t. Private to "open": p.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • notennnoten · noetn · notenn · notne · notten · ntoen · onten
  • openoepn · openn · opne · oppen · poen

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "noten" and "open" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "noten" is a noun and "open" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "noten" 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 #5,014 for "noten". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "noten" and "open". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "noten" 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 #1,987,505 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "noten" and "open" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "noten 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 #1,987,505 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