offsvsOpusTell them apart

Quick tell: offs is a verb, Opus is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“offs” is a verb and “Opus” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#24,856
“offs” frequency rank
#20,690
“Opus” frequency rank
45546
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature offs Opus
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs off Werk eines Künstlers/Wissenschaftlers

Letter map: offs vs Opus

Shared letters muted; letters that set offs and Opus apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
offs
4 ch
Opus

Role in the sentence - offs and Opus

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: offs is averb and Opusanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45546, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

offs is recorded at frequency rank #24,856, classified as averb, pronounced […]. Opus is at rank #20,690, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈoːpʊs].

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 45546, this pair ranks #1,349,370 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of offs vs Opus

Shared letters: os. Private to "offs": f. Private to "Opus": pu.

"offs" · 4 letters · shape VCCC  ·  "Opus" · 4 letters · shape VCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • offsfofs · offss · ofs · ofsf
  • Opusoppus · opsu · opuss · oups · pous

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "offs" and "Opus" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "offs" is a verb and "Opus" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "offs" or "Opus" show up more?
"Opus" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #20,690 in our German list, against #24,856 for "offs". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "offs" and "Opus".

  • Full dictionary entry for "offs" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Opus" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,349,370 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "offs" and "Opus" 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 #1,349,370 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