öffne
[ˈœfnə]
The verdict
“öffne” sits in 19 confusable pairs (corpus #13,081) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,081
- frequency rank, German
- 533
- “Ö” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs öffnen
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | öffne |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈœfnə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “öffne” sits in German frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for öffne is neighbouring look-alikes ("one", "ohne", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈœfnə]. Frequency #13,081 among 533 “Ö” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for öffne, with forms such as "föfne", "öffen", and "öfne". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "one", "ohne", "offs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is öffne, spelled Ö-F-F-N-E.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs öffnen
- 21. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs öffnen
- 33. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs öffnen
- 42. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs öffnen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- föfne
- öffen
- öfne
- öfnfe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of öffne - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “öffne”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is Ö-F-F-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈœfnə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “one” - see the side-by-side comparison. öffne vs one
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Words at a similar German frequency
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.