FabiennevsultraWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#48,131
“Fabienne” frequency rank
#8,146
“ultra” frequency rank
56277
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Fabienne ultra
Definition weiblicher Vorname weiter hinaus, jenseits, dahinter

Letter map: Fabienne vs ultra

Shared letters muted; letters that set Fabienne and ultra apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. Fabienne runs 8 letters (CVCVVCCV) against ultra's 5 (VCCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
Fabienne
5 ch
ultra

Part-of-speech tell for Fabienne / ultra

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Fabienne is aname and ultraanadverb. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56277, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Fabienne is recorded at frequency rank #48,131, classified as aname, 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 56277, this pair ranks #946,517 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Fabienne vs ultra

Shared letters: a. Private to "Fabienne": befin. Private to "ultra": lrtu.

"Fabienne" · 8 letters · shape CVCVVCCV  ·  "ultra" · 5 letters · shape VCCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Fabienne ← afbienne · fabbienne · fabeinne · fabiene · fabienen · fabinene · faibenne · fbaienne
  • ultra ← lutra · ulltra · ulrta · ultar · ultrra · ulttra · utlra

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Fabienne" for "ultra" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Fabienne" is a name and "ultra" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Fabienne" vs "ultra" - which ranks higher?
"ultra" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,146 in our German list, against #48,131 for "Fabienne". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "Fabienne" 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 #946,517 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Fabienne" and "ultra" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Fabienne 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 #946,517 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