offene vs Offense, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#2,672
“offene” frequency rank: #35,940
“Offense” frequency rank: 38612
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	offene	Offense
Definition	Nominativ Singular Femininum Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs offen	Gesamtheit der angreifenden Spieler

Letter map: offene vs Offense

Shared letters muted; letters that set offene and Offense apart highlighted. Shared run: 6.

6 ch

offene

7 ch

Offense

Role in the sentence - offene and Offense

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: offene is anadjective and Offenseanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38612, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

offene is recorded at frequency rank #2,672, classified as anadj, pronounced [ˈɔfənə]. Offense is at rank #35,940, tagged as anoun, 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 38612, this pair ranks #1,559,353 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of offene vs Offense

Shared letters: efno. Private to "offene": -. Private to "Offense": s.

"offene" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV · "Offense" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

offene ← fofene · ofefne · ofene · offeen · offnee
Offense ← fofense · ofefnse · ofense · offennse · offensse · offesne · offnese

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "offene" for "Offense" ever safe?

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

Frequency check: "offene" vs "Offense" - which ranks higher?

"offene" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,672 in our German list, against #35,940 for "Offense". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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Full dictionary entry for "offene" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "Offense" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,559,353 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"offene" and "Offense" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Offense 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 #1,559,353 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.