Which to use
“marks” is a verb and “unsern” is a determiner - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #25,230
- “marks” frequency rank
- #24,966
- “unsern” frequency rank
- 50196
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | marks | unsern |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs mark | Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum attributiv des Pronomens unser |
Letter map: marks vs unsern
Shared letters muted; letters that set marks and unsern apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. marks runs 5 letters (CVCCC) 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 marks / unsern
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: marks is averb and unsernadeterminer. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50196, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
marks is recorded at frequency rank #25,230, classified as averb, 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 50196, this pair ranks #1,182,946 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of marks vs unsern
Shared letters: rs. Private to "marks": akm. Private to "unsern": enu.
"marks" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC · "unsern" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "marks" for "unsern" ever safe?
Frequency check: "marks" vs "unsern" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've compared "marks" and "unsern". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "marks" 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 #1,182,946 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "marks" and "unsern" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "marks 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 #1,182,946 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.