us's vs USC, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“us's” is a contraction and “USC” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#40,501
“us's” frequency rank: #10,790
“USC” frequency rank: 51291
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	us's	USC
Definition	Contraction of us + is.	Initialism of United States Code.

Letter map: us's vs USC

Shared letters muted; letters that set us's and USC apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch

us's

3 ch

USC

Part-of-speech tell for us's / USC

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: us's is acontraction and USCaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51291, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

us's is recorded at frequency rank #40,501, classified as acontraction, pronounced /ˈʌsɪz/. USC is at rank #10,790, tagged as aname.

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 51291, this pair ranks #166,728 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of us's vs USC

Shared letters: su. Private to "us's": -. Private to "USC": c.

"us's" · 3 letters · shape VCC · "USC" · 3 letters · shape VCC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "us's" and "USC" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "us's" is a contraction and "USC" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary English text, does "us's" or "USC" show up more?

"USC" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,790 in our English list, against #40,501 for "us's". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "us's" and "USC". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "us's" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "USC" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #166,728 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"us's" and "USC" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "UAS vs us's". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #166,728 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.