Ulf vs uns, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“Ulf” is a name and “uns” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#18,408
“Ulf” frequency rank: #85
“uns” frequency rank: 18493
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	Ulf	uns
Definition	männlicher Vorname	Personalpronomen 1. Person Plural Dativ

Letter map: Ulf vs uns

Shared letters muted; letters that set Ulf and uns apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

3 ch

Ulf

3 ch

uns

Grammar separator: Ulf vs uns

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Ulf is aname and unsapronoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18493, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Ulf is recorded at frequency rank #18,408, classified as aname, pronounced […]. uns is at rank #85, tagged as apron, pronounced [ʊns].

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 18493, this pair ranks #1,917,673 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Ulf vs uns

Shared letters: u. Private to "Ulf": fl. Private to "uns": ns.

"Ulf" · 3 letters · shape VCC · "uns" · 3 letters · shape VCC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Ulf" and "uns" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Ulf" is a name and "uns" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary German text, does "Ulf" or "uns" show up more?

"uns" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #85 in our German list, against #18,408 for "Ulf". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "Ulf" and "uns". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "Ulf" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "uns" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,917,673 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"Ulf" and "uns" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs Ulf". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #1,917,673 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.