HulkvshungTell them apart

Quick tell: Hulk is a noun, hung is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Hulk” is a noun and “hung” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#20,956
“Hulk” frequency rank
#35,242
“hung” frequency rank
56198
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Hulk hung
Definition Schiff ohne eigenen Antrieb Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs hang

Letter map: Hulk vs hung

Shared letters muted; letters that set Hulk and hung apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
Hulk
4 ch
hung

Part-of-speech tell for Hulk / hung

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Hulk is anoun and hungaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56198, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Hulk is recorded at frequency rank #20,956, classified as anoun, pronounced [hʊlk]. hung is at rank #35,242, tagged as averb, 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 56198, this pair ranks #949,553 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Hulk vs hung

Shared letters: hu. Private to "Hulk": kl. Private to "hung": gn.

"Hulk" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "hung" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Hulkhhulk · hluk · hukl · hulkk · hullk · uhlk
  • hunghhung · hnug · hugn · hungg · hunng · uhng

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Hulk" and "hung" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Hulk" is a noun and "hung" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Hulk" or "hung" show up more?
"Hulk" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #20,956 in our German list, against #35,242 for "hung". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "Hulk" and "hung".

  • Full dictionary entry for "Hulk" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hung" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #949,553 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Hulk" and "hung" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hung 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 #949,553 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