deinevsDennyWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: deine is a unknown, Denny is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“deine” is an unknown and “Denny” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#255
“deine” frequency rank
#41,106
“Denny” frequency rank
41361
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature deine Denny
Definition Nominativ Singular Femininum des Possessivpronomens dein männlicher Vorname

Letter map: deine vs Denny

Shared letters muted; letters that set deine and Denny apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. deine (CVVCV) and Denny (CVCCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
deine
5 ch
Denny

Grammar separator: deine vs Denny

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: deine is anunknown and Dennyaname. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41361, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

deine is recorded at frequency rank #255, classified as anunknown, pronounced [ˈdaɪ̯nə]. Denny is at rank #41,106, tagged as aname, 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 41361, this pair ranks #1,481,741 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of deine vs Denny

Shared letters: den. Private to "deine": i. Private to "Denny": y.

"deine" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV  ·  "Denny" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • deine ← ddeine · deien · deinne · denie · edine
  • Denny ← ddenny · dennyy · deny · denyn · dneny · ednny

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "deine" for "Denny" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "deine" is an unknown and "Denny" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "deine" or "Denny" show up more?
"deine" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #255 in our German list, against #41,106 for "Denny". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pair "deine" vs "Denny" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "deine" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Denny" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,481,741 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "deine" and "Denny" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Denny vs puzzles". 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 #1,481,741 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