manningvsultraWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#26,962
“manning” frequency rank
#8,146
“ultra” frequency rank
35108
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature manning ultra
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs man weiter hinaus, jenseits, dahinter

Letter map: manning vs ultra

Shared letters muted; letters that set manning and ultra apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. manning runs 7 letters (CVCCVCC) against ultra's 5 (VCCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
manning
5 ch
ultra

Part-of-speech tell for manning / ultra

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: manning is averb and ultraanadverb. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35108, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

manning is recorded at frequency rank #26,962, classified as averb, 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 35108, this pair ranks #1,647,884 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of manning vs ultra

Shared letters: a. Private to "manning": gimn. Private to "ultra": lrtu.

"manning" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC  ·  "ultra" · 5 letters · shape VCCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • manningamnning · maning · maninng · mannign · manningg · manninng · mannnig · mmanning
  • ultralutra · ulltra · ulrta · ultar · ultrra · ulttra · utlra

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "manning" and "ultra" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "manning" is a verb and "ultra" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "manning" or "ultra" show up more?
"ultra" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,146 in our German list, against #26,962 for "manning". 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 "manning" and "ultra". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "manning" 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 #1,647,884 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "manning" and "ultra" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "manning 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 #1,647,884 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