centvsultraWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: cent is a noun, ultra is an adverb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“cent” is a noun and “ultra” is an adverb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#3,430
“cent” frequency rank
#8,146
“ultra” frequency rank
11576
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cent ultra
Definition Cent (Eurocent) weiter hinaus, jenseits, dahinter

Letter map: cent vs ultra

Shared letters muted; letters that set cent and ultra apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. cent runs 4 letters (CVCC) against ultra's 5 (VCCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
cent
5 ch
ultra

Role in the sentence - cent and ultra

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: cent is anoun and ultraanadverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11576, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cent is recorded at frequency rank #3,430, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. ultra is at rank #8,146, tagged as anadv, 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 11576, this pair ranks #1,969,128 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of cent vs ultra

Shared letters: t. Private to "cent": cen. Private to "ultra": alru.

"cent" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "ultra" · 5 letters · shape VCCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • centccent · cennt · centt · cetn · cnet · ecnt
  • ultralutra · ulltra · ulrta · ultar · ultrra · ulttra · utlra

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "cent" and "ultra" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "cent" is a noun and "ultra" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "cent" or "ultra" show up more?
"cent" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,430 in our German list, against #8,146 for "ultra". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "cent" and "ultra". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "cent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "ultra" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,969,128 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cent" and "ultra" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs ultra". 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 #1,969,128 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