UkevsusWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Uke is a noun, us is a pronoun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Uke” is a noun and “us” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#44,987
“Uke” frequency rank
#438
“us” frequency rank
45425
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Uke us
Definition im Judo die Person, die geworfen wird beziehungsweise an der die Technik ausgeführt wird uns

Letter map: Uke vs us

Shared letters muted; letters that set Uke and us apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

3 ch
Uke
2 ch
us

Part-of-speech tell for Uke / us

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Uke is anoun and usapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45425, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Uke is recorded at frequency rank #44,987, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. us is at rank #438, tagged as apron, pronounced [ʌs].

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 45425, this pair ranks #1,353,461 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Uke vs us

Shared letters: u. Private to "Uke": ek. Private to "us": s.

"Uke" · 3 letters · shape VCV  ·  "us" · 2 letters · shape VC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "Uke" and "us" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Uke" is a noun and "us" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Uke" vs "us" - which ranks higher?
"us" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #438 in our German list, against #44,987 for "Uke". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pair "Uke" vs "us" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Uke" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "us" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,353,461 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Uke" and "us" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs Uke". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #1,353,461 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