guestvsultraTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#38,160
“guest” frequency rank
#8,146
“ultra” frequency rank
46306
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature guest ultra
Definition Gast weiter hinaus, jenseits, dahinter

Letter map: guest vs ultra

Shared letters muted; letters that set guest and ultra apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. guest (CVVCC) and ultra (VCCCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
guest
5 ch
ultra

Grammar separator: guest vs ultra

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: guest 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 46306, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

guest is recorded at frequency rank #38,160, 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 46306, this pair ranks #1,323,686 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of guest vs ultra

Shared letters: tu. Private to "guest": egs. Private to "ultra": alr.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • guestgeust · gguest · guesst · guestt · guset · ugest
  • ultralutra · ulltra · ulrta · ultar · ultrra · ulttra · utlra

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "guest" for "ultra" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "guest" is a noun and "ultra" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "guest" or "ultra"?
"ultra" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,146 in our German list, against #38,160 for "guest". 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 "guest" and "ultra". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "guest" 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 #1,323,686 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "guest" and "ultra" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "guest 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 #1,323,686 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