Which to use
“offs” is a verb and “open” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #24,856
- “offs” frequency rank
- #2,607
- “open” frequency rank
- 27463
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | offs | open |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs off | etwas ist nicht geschlossen |
Letter map: offs vs open
Shared letters muted; letters that set offs and open apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.
Part-of-speech tell for offs / open
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: offs is averb and openanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27463, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
offs is recorded at frequency rank #24,856, 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 27463, this pair ranks #1,801,414 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of offs vs open
Shared letters: o. Private to "offs": fs. Private to "open": enp.
"offs" · 4 letters · shape VCCC · "open" · 4 letters · shape VCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "offs" for "open" ever safe?
Which is more common, "offs" or "open"?
After this comparison
You've compared "offs" and "open". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "offs" 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 #1,801,414 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "offs" and "open" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "offs 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 #1,801,414 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.