foodsvsultraTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#43,879
“foods” frequency rank
#8,146
“ultra” frequency rank
52025
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature foods ultra
Definition Plural des Substantivs food weiter hinaus, jenseits, dahinter

Letter map: foods vs ultra

Shared letters muted; letters that set foods and ultra apart highlighted. No shared letter run. foods (CVVCC) and ultra (VCCCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
foods
5 ch
ultra

Role in the sentence - foods and ultra

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: foods is anoun and ultraanadverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 5 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52025, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

foods is recorded at frequency rank #43,879, 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 52025, this pair ranks #1,112,846 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of foods vs ultra

Shared letters: none. Private to "foods": dfos. Private to "ultra": alrtu.

"foods" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC  ·  "ultra" · 5 letters · shape VCCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • foodsffoods · fodos · fods · foodds · foodss · foosd · ofods
  • ultralutra · ulltra · ulrta · ultar · ultrra · ulttra · utlra

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "foods" and "ultra" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "foods" is a noun and "ultra" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "foods" or "ultra" show up more?
"ultra" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,146 in our German list, against #43,879 for "foods". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "foods" 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 #1,112,846 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "foods" and "ultra" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "foods 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 #1,112,846 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