opening vs tore, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#30,228
“opening” frequency rank: #2,414
“tore” frequency rank: 32642
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	opening	tore
Definition	Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs open	Vulva

Letter map: opening vs tore

Shared letters muted; letters that set opening and tore apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

7 ch

opening

4 ch

tore

Grammar separator: opening vs tore

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: opening is averb and toreanoun. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32642, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

opening is recorded at frequency rank #30,228, classified as averb, pronounced […]. tore is at rank #2,414, 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 32642, this pair ranks #1,703,223 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of opening vs tore

Shared letters: eo. Private to "opening": ginp. Private to "tore": rt.

"opening" · 7 letters · shape VCVCVCC · "tore" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

opening ← oepning · opeinng · openign · openingg · openinng · opennig · openning · opneing
tore ← otre · toer · troe · ttore

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "opening" for "tore" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "opening" is a verb and "tore" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary German text, does "opening" or "tore" show up more?

"tore" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,414 in our German list, against #30,228 for "opening". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "opening" and "tore".

Full dictionary entry for "opening" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "tore" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,703,223 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"opening" and "tore" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "opening 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 #1,703,223 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.