und vs uns, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“und” is a conjunction and “uns” is an article - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#29,551
“und” frequency rank: #485
“uns” frequency rank: 30036
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	und	uns
Definition	(conjunção coordenativa) e.	alguns; certas pessoas

Letter map: und vs uns

Shared letters muted; letters that set und and uns apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

3 ch

und

3 ch

uns

Role in the sentence - und and uns

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: und is aconjunction and unsanarticle. On the page they differ by a single letter - d in “und” becomes s in “uns”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30036, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

und is recorded at frequency rank #29,551, classified as aconj, pronounced /ʊnt/. uns is at rank #485, tagged as anarticle.

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 30036, this pair ranks #38,429 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of und vs uns

Shared letters: nu. Private to "und": d. Private to "uns": s.

"und" · 3 letters · shape VCC · "uns" · 3 letters · shape VCC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "und" for "uns" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "und" is a conjunction and "uns" an article, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "und" or "uns"?

"uns" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #485 in our Portuguese list, against #29,551 for "und". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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Full dictionary entry for "und" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "uns" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #38,429 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"und" and "uns" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ú vs und". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #38,429 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.