Which to use
“open” is an adjective and “pater” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #2,607
- “open” frequency rank
- #8,439
- “pater” frequency rank
- 11046
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | open | pater |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | etwas ist nicht geschlossen | der Vater |
Letter map: open vs pater
Shared letters muted; letters that set open and pater apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. open runs 4 letters (VCVC) against pater's 5 (CVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for open / pater
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: open is anadjective and pateranoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11046, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
open is recorded at frequency rank #2,607, classified as anadj, pronounced […]. pater is at rank #8,439, 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 11046, this pair ranks #1,971,970 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of open vs pater
Shared letters: ep. Private to "open": no. Private to "pater": art.
"open" · 4 letters · shape VCVC · "pater" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "open" for "pater" ever safe?
In ordinary German text, does "open" or "pater" show up more?
After this comparison
Pair "open" vs "pater" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "open" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "pater" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #1,971,970 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "open" and "pater" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pater 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 #1,971,970 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.