open vs ops, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#2,607
“open” frequency rank: #13,907
“ops” frequency rank: 16514
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	open	ops
Definition	etwas ist nicht geschlossen	die Fähigkeit zu helfen, die Hilfe, der Beistand

Letter map: open vs ops

Shared letters muted; letters that set open and ops apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch

open

3 ch

ops

Role in the sentence - open and ops

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: open is anadjective and opsanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16514, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

open is recorded at frequency rank #2,607, classified as anadj, pronounced […]. ops is at rank #13,907, tagged as anoun.

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 16514, this pair ranks #1,935,217 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of open vs ops

Shared letters: op. Private to "open": en. Private to "ops": s.

"open" · 4 letters · shape VCVC · "ops" · 3 letters · shape VCC

Known mistypes of this pair

open ← oepn · openn · opne · oppen · poen

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "open" and "ops" be used interchangeably?

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

In ordinary German text, does "open" or "ops" show up more?

"open" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,607 in our German list, against #13,907 for "ops". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "open" and "ops". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "open" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "ops" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,935,217 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"open" and "ops" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "OGH vs ops". 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 #1,935,217 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.