KöllevsultraTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#49,855
“Kölle” frequency rank
#8,146
“ultra” frequency rank
58001
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Kölle ultra
Definition deutscher Nachname, Familienname weiter hinaus, jenseits, dahinter

Letter map: Kölle vs ultra

Shared letters muted; letters that set Kölle and ultra apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. Kölle (CVCCV) and ultra (VCCCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
Kölle
5 ch
ultra

Part-of-speech tell for Kölle / ultra

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Kölle is aname and ultraanadverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 5 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58001, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Kölle is recorded at frequency rank #49,855, classified as aname, 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 58001, this pair ranks #879,481 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Kölle vs ultra

Shared letters: l. Private to "Kölle": ekö. Private to "ultra": artu.

"Kölle" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "ultra" · 5 letters · shape VCCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • ultralutra · ulltra · ulrta · ultar · ultrra · ulttra · utlra

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Kölle" for "ultra" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Kölle" is a name and "ultra" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "Kölle" or "ultra"?
"ultra" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,146 in our German list, against #49,855 for "Kölle". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "Kölle" 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 #879,481 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Kölle" and "ultra" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Kölle 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 #879,481 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