flyersvsultraWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#42,493
“flyers” frequency rank
#8,146
“ultra” frequency rank
50639
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature flyers ultra
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs flyer weiter hinaus, jenseits, dahinter

Letter map: flyers vs ultra

Shared letters muted; letters that set flyers and ultra apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. flyers runs 6 letters (CCVVCC) against ultra's 5 (VCCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
flyers
5 ch
ultra

Grammar separator: flyers vs ultra

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: flyers is averb and ultraanadverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50639, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

flyers is recorded at frequency rank #42,493, classified as averb, 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 50639, this pair ranks #1,166,114 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of flyers vs ultra

Shared letters: lr. Private to "flyers": efsy. Private to "ultra": atu.

"flyers" · 6 letters · shape CCVVCC  ·  "ultra" · 5 letters · shape VCCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • flyersfflyers · fleyrs · fllyers · flyerrs · flyerss · flyesr · flyres · flyyers
  • ultralutra · ulltra · ulrta · ultar · ultrra · ulttra · utlra

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "flyers" and "ultra" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "flyers" is a verb and "ultra" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "flyers" 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 #42,493 for "flyers". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "flyers" 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 #1,166,114 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "flyers" and "ultra" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "flyers 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 #1,166,114 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