ligavsultraTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#1,607
“liga” frequency rank
#8,146
“ultra” frequency rank
9753
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature liga ultra
Definition Krankheit weiter hinaus, jenseits, dahinter

Letter map: liga vs ultra

Shared letters muted; letters that set liga and ultra apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. liga runs 4 letters (CVCV) against ultra's 5 (VCCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
liga
5 ch
ultra

Part-of-speech tell for liga / ultra

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: liga is anoun and ultraanadverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 9753, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

liga is recorded at frequency rank #1,607, 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 9753, this pair ranks #1,978,456 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of liga vs ultra

Shared letters: al. Private to "liga": gi. Private to "ultra": rtu.

"liga" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "ultra" · 5 letters · shape VCCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • ligailga · lgia · liag · ligga · lliga
  • ultralutra · ulltra · ulrta · ultar · ultrra · ulttra · utlra

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "liga" for "ultra" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "liga" is a noun and "ultra" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "liga" or "ultra"?
"liga" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,607 in our German list, against #8,146 for "ultra". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "liga" and "ultra".

  • Full dictionary entry for "liga" 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 #1,978,456 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "liga" and "ultra" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs ultra". 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 #1,978,456 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