friendsvsunisWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: friends is a noun, unis is an unknown, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“friends” is a noun and “unis” is an unknown - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#11,235
“friends” frequency rank
#17,441
“unis” frequency rank
28676
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature friends unis
Definition Plural des Substantivs friend Dativ Plural m/f/n von unus

Letter map: friends vs unis

Shared letters muted; letters that set friends and unis apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. friends runs 7 letters (CCVVCCC) against unis's 4 (VCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
friends
4 ch
unis

Part-of-speech tell for friends / unis

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: friends is anoun and unisanunknown. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28676, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

friends is recorded at frequency rank #11,235, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. unis is at rank #17,441, tagged as anunknown, 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 28676, this pair ranks #1,780,555 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of friends vs unis

Shared letters: ins. Private to "friends": defr. Private to "unis": u.

"friends" · 7 letters · shape CCVVCCC  ·  "unis" · 4 letters · shape VCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • friendsffriends · firends · freinds · friedns · friendds · friendss · friennds · friensd
  • unisnuis · uins · uniss · unnis · unsi

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "friends" and "unis" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "friends" is a noun and "unis" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "friends" vs "unis" - which ranks higher?
"friends" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,235 in our German list, against #17,441 for "unis". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "friends" vs "unis" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "friends" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "unis" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,780,555 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "friends" and "unis" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs unis". 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 #1,780,555 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