unsern vs windows, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#24,966
“unsern” frequency rank: #2,937
“windows” frequency rank: 27903
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	unsern	windows
Definition	Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum attributiv des Pronomens unser	Plural des Substantivs window

Letter map: unsern vs windows

Shared letters muted; letters that set unsern and windows apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

6 ch

unsern

7 ch

windows

Grammar separator: unsern vs windows

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: unsern is adeterminer and windowsanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27903, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

unsern is recorded at frequency rank #24,966, classified as adet, pronounced […]. windows is at rank #2,937, 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 27903, this pair ranks #1,793,893 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of unsern vs windows

Shared letters: ns. Private to "unsern": eru. Private to "windows": diow.

"unsern" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCC · "windows" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

unsern ← nusern · unesrn · unnsern · unsenr · unsernn · unserrn · unsren · unssern
windows ← iwndows · widnows · winddows · windosw · windowss · windowws · windwos · winndows

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "unsern" and "windows" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "unsern" is a determiner and "windows" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "unsern" or "windows"?

"windows" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,937 in our German list, against #24,966 for "unsern". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "unsern" and "windows".

Full dictionary entry for "unsern" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "windows" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,793,893 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"unsern" and "windows" 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 #1,793,893 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.