ullavsultraWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#24,155
“ulla” frequency rank
#8,146
“ultra” frequency rank
32301
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature ulla ultra
Definition Nominativ Singular Femininum des Indefinitpronomens ullus weiter hinaus, jenseits, dahinter

Letter map: ulla vs ultra

Shared letters muted; letters that set ulla and ultra apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch
ulla
5 ch
ultra

Grammar separator: ulla vs ultra

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: ulla is anunknown and ultraanadverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32301, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ulla is recorded at frequency rank #24,155, classified as anunknown, 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 32301, this pair ranks #1,710,544 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of ulla vs ultra

Shared letters: alu. Private to "ulla": -. Private to "ultra": rt.

"ulla" · 4 letters · shape VCCV  ·  "ultra" · 5 letters · shape VCCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • ullalula · ula · ulal
  • ultralutra · ulltra · ulrta · ultar · ultrra · ulttra · utlra

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "ulla" and "ultra" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "ulla" is an unknown and "ultra" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "ulla" vs "ultra" - which ranks higher?
"ultra" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,146 in our German list, against #24,155 for "ulla". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "ulla" and "ultra".

  • Full dictionary entry for "ulla" 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 #1,710,544 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "ulla" and "ultra" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs ulla". 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 #1,710,544 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