officevsultraTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#5,205
“office” frequency rank
#8,146
“ultra” frequency rank
13351
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature office ultra
Definition Arbeitsraum für Verwaltung und Planung: Büro weiter hinaus, jenseits, dahinter

Letter map: office vs ultra

Shared letters muted; letters that set office and ultra apart highlighted. No shared letter run. office runs 6 letters (VCCVCV) against ultra's 5 (VCCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
office
5 ch
ultra

Grammar separator: office vs ultra

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: office is anoun and ultraanadverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13351, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

office is recorded at frequency rank #5,205, 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 13351, this pair ranks #1,958,539 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of office vs ultra

Shared letters: none. Private to "office": cefio. Private to "ultra": alrtu.

"office" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV  ·  "ultra" · 5 letters · shape VCCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • office ← fofice · offcie · officce · offiec · ofice · ofifce
  • ultra ← lutra · ulltra · ulrta · ultar · ultrra · ulttra · utlra

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "office" for "ultra" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "office" is a noun and "ultra" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "office" vs "ultra" - which ranks higher?
"office" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,205 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.

What to do next

Pair "office" vs "ultra" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "office" 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 #1,958,539 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "office" 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 #1,958,539 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