Which to use
“us's” is a contraction and “USGS” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #40,501
- “us's” frequency rank
- #27,015
- “USGS” frequency rank
- 67516
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | us's | USGS |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Contraction of us + is. | Initialism of United States Geological Survey. |
Letter map: us's vs USGS
Shared letters muted; letters that set us's and USGS apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: us's is acontraction and USGSaname. On the page they differ by a single letter - ' in “us's” becomes g in “USGS”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67516, 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/. USGS is at rank #27,015, 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 67516, this pair ranks #62,976 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of us's vs USGS
Shared letters: su. Private to "us's": -. Private to "USGS": g.
"us's" · 3 letters · shape VCC · "USGS" · 4 letters · shape VCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- USGS ← sugs · ugss · usggs · usgss · ussg · ussgs