edited vs their, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“edited” is a verb and “their” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#36,895
“edited” frequency rank: #11,131
“their” frequency rank: 48026
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	edited	their
Definition	Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs edit	ihr

Letter map: edited vs their

Shared letters muted; letters that set edited and their apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. edited runs 6 letters (VCVCVC) against their's 5 (CCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch

edited

5 ch

their

Role in the sentence - edited and their

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: edited is averb and theirapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48026, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

edited is recorded at frequency rank #36,895, classified as averb, pronounced […]. their is at rank #11,131, tagged as apron, 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 48026, this pair ranks #1,263,514 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of edited vs their

Shared letters: eit. Private to "edited": d. Private to "their": hr.

"edited" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC · "their" · 5 letters · shape CCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

edited ← deited · eddited · edietd · editde · editedd · editted · edtied · eidted
their ← hteir · tehir · theirr · theri · thheir · thier · ttheir

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "edited" and "their" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "edited" is a verb and "their" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary German text, does "edited" or "their" show up more?

"their" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,131 in our German list, against #36,895 for "edited". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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Full dictionary entry for "edited" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "their" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,263,514 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"edited" and "their" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "edited 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 #1,263,514 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.