unserevsuserWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: unsere is a determiner, user is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“unsere” is a determiner and “user” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#218
“unsere” frequency rank
#2,693
“user” frequency rank
2911
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature unsere user
Definition Nominativ Singular Femininum attributiv des Pronomens unser Benutzer

Letter map: unsere vs user

Shared letters muted; letters that set unsere and user apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

6 ch
unsere
4 ch
user

Part-of-speech tell for unsere / user

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: unsere is adeterminer and useranoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 2911, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

unsere is recorded at frequency rank #218, classified as adet, pronounced [ˈʊnzəʁə]. user is at rank #2,693, tagged as anoun, 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 2911, this pair ranks #2,001,335 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of unsere vs user

Shared letters: ersu. Private to "unsere": n. Private to "user": -.

"unsere" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV  ·  "user" · 4 letters · shape VCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • unserenusere · unesre · unnsere · unseer · unserre · unsree · unssere · usnere
  • usersuer · uesr · userr · usre · usser

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "unsere" and "user" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "unsere" is a determiner and "user" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "unsere" or "user"?
"unsere" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #218 in our German list, against #2,693 for "user". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "unsere" and "user". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "unsere" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "user" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #2,001,335 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "unsere" and "user" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs user". 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 #2,001,335 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