unseresvsunsernTell them apart

Quick tell: unseres is a unknown, unsern is a determiner, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“unseres” is an unknown and “unsern” is a determiner - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#1,949
“unseres” frequency rank
#24,966
“unsern” frequency rank
26915
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature unseres unsern
Definition Genitiv Singular Maskulinum des Possessivpronomens unser Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum attributiv des Pronomens unser

Letter map: unseres vs unsern

Shared letters muted; letters that set unseres and unsern apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

7 ch
unseres
6 ch
unsern

Role in the sentence - unseres and unsern

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: unseres is anunknown and unsernadeterminer. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26915, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

unseres is recorded at frequency rank #1,949, classified as anunknown, pronounced [ˈʊnzəʁəs]. unsern is at rank #24,966, tagged as adet, 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 26915, this pair ranks #1,810,294 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of unseres vs unsern

Shared letters: enrsu. Private to "unseres": -. Private to "unsern": -.

"unseres" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC  ·  "unsern" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • unseresnuseres · unesres · unnseres · unseers · unseress · unserres · unserse · unsrees
  • unsernnusern · unesrn · unnsern · unsenr · unsernn · unserrn · unsren · unssern

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "unseres" and "unsern" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "unseres" is an unknown and "unsern" a determiner, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "unseres" vs "unsern" - which ranks higher?
"unseres" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,949 in our German list, against #24,966 for "unsern". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "unseres" and "unsern". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "unseres" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "unsern" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,810,294 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "unseres" and "unsern" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs unsern". 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 #1,810,294 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