unisvsusTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#17,441
“unis” frequency rank
#438
“us” frequency rank
17879
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature unis us
Definition Dativ Plural m/f/n von unus uns

Letter map: unis vs us

Shared letters muted; letters that set unis and us apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
unis
2 ch
us

Part-of-speech tell for unis / us

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: unis is anunknown and usapronoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17879, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

unis is recorded at frequency rank #17,441, classified as anunknown, 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 17879, this pair ranks #1,923,419 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of unis vs us

Shared letters: su. Private to "unis": in. Private to "us": -.

"unis" · 4 letters · shape VCVC  ·  "us" · 2 letters · shape VC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • unisnuis · uins · uniss · unnis · unsi

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "unis" and "us" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "unis" is an unknown and "us" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "unis" or "us"?
"us" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #438 in our German list, against #17,441 for "unis". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "unis" 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 #1,923,419 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "unis" and "us" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs unis". 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 #1,923,419 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