trustvsultraTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#18,099
“trust” frequency rank
#8,146
“ultra” frequency rank
26245
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature trust ultra
Definition Glaube an die Fähigkeiten und guten Absichten von Personen oder an die Verlässlichkeit von Dingen: Vertrauen weiter hinaus, jenseits, dahinter

Letter map: trust vs ultra

Shared letters muted; letters that set trust and ultra apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

5 ch
trust
5 ch
ultra

Part-of-speech tell for trust / ultra

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: trust is anoun and ultraanadverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 5 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26245, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

trust is recorded at frequency rank #18,099, 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 26245, this pair ranks #1,821,038 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of trust vs ultra

Shared letters: rtu. Private to "trust": s. Private to "ultra": al.

"trust" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC  ·  "ultra" · 5 letters · shape VCCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • trustrtust · trrust · trsut · trusst · trustt · truts · ttrust · turst
  • ultralutra · ulltra · ulrta · ultar · ultrra · ulttra · utlra

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "trust" and "ultra" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "trust" is a noun and "ultra" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "trust" or "ultra"?
"ultra" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,146 in our German list, against #18,099 for "trust". 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 "trust" and "ultra". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "trust" 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 #1,821,038 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "trust" and "ultra" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs trust". 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 #1,821,038 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