Which to use
“offenes” is an adjective and “Offense” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #9,957
- “offenes” frequency rank
- #35,940
- “Offense” frequency rank
- 45897
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | offenes | Offense |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Nominativ Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs offen | Gesamtheit der angreifenden Spieler |
Letter map: offenes vs Offense
Shared letters muted; letters that set offenes and Offense apart highlighted. Shared run: 6.
Grammar separator: offenes vs Offense
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: offenes is anadjective and Offenseanoun. On the page they differ only by swapping two adjacent letters (es ↔ se) - a transposition the eye reads straight past. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45897, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
offenes is recorded at frequency rank #9,957, classified as anadj, pronounced [ˈɔfənəs]. 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 45897, this pair ranks #1,337,425 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of offenes vs Offense
Shared letters: efnos. Private to "offenes": -. Private to "Offense": -.
"offenes" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC · "Offense" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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- Full dictionary entry for "offenes" 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 #1,337,425 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "offenes" 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 #1,337,425 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.