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.
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
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
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- 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.