Which to use
“magister” is a noun and “unsern” is a determiner - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #20,334
- “magister” frequency rank
- #24,966
- “unsern” frequency rank
- 45300
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | magister | unsern |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Meister, Vorsteher, der Vorgesetzte, Leiter, Aufseher, Anführer | Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum attributiv des Pronomens unser |
Letter map: magister vs unsern
Shared letters muted; letters that set magister and unsern apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. magister runs 8 letters (CVCVCCVC) against unsern's 6 (VCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for magister / unsern
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: magister is anoun and unsernadeterminer. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45300, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
magister is recorded at frequency rank #20,334, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. unsern is at rank #24,966, tagged as adet, 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 45300, this pair ranks #1,357,719 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of magister vs unsern
Shared letters: ers. Private to "magister": agimt. Private to "unsern": nu.
"magister" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC · "unsern" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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Frequency check: "magister" vs "unsern" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've compared "magister" and "unsern". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "magister" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "unsern" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #1,357,719 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "magister" and "unsern" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs unsern". 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 #1,357,719 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.