offenevsofferteConfusable pair

Quick tell: offene is a adjective, offerte is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#2,672
“offene” frequency rank
#31,201
“offerte” frequency rank
33873
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature offene offerte
Definition Nominativ Singular Femininum Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs offen Plural des Substantivs offerta

Letter map: offene vs offerte

Shared letters muted; letters that set offene and offerte apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

6 ch
offene
7 ch
offerte

Part-of-speech tell for offene / offerte

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: offene is anadjective and offerteanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33873, 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]. offerte is at rank #31,201, 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 33873, this pair ranks #1,676,138 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of offene vs offerte

Shared letters: efo. Private to "offene": n. Private to "offerte": rt.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • offenefofene · ofefne · ofene · offeen · offnee
  • offertefoferte · ofefrte · oferte · offeret · offerrte · offertte · offetre · offrete

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "offene" for "offerte" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "offene" is an adjective and "offerte" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "offene" vs "offerte" - which ranks higher?
"offene" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,672 in our German list, against #31,201 for "offerte". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pair "offene" vs "offerte" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "offene" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "offerte" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,676,138 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "offene" and "offerte" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "offerte 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 #1,676,138 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