flamencovsyourselfTell them apart

Quick tell: flamenco is a adjective, yourself is a pronoun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“flamenco” is an adjective and “yourself” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#35,183
“flamenco” frequency rank
#21,854
“yourself” frequency rank
57037
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature flamenco yourself
Definition flämisch [du] dich selbst; [du] dir selbst, [du] selbst

Letter map: flamenco vs yourself

Shared letters muted; letters that set flamenco and yourself apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. flamenco (CCVCVCCV) and yourself (VVVCCVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

8 ch
flamenco
8 ch
yourself

Role in the sentence - flamenco and yourself

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: flamenco is anadjective and yourselfapronoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 8 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57037, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

flamenco is recorded at frequency rank #35,183, classified as anadj, pronounced […]. yourself is at rank #21,854, 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 57037, this pair ranks #916,992 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of flamenco vs yourself

Shared letters: eflo. Private to "flamenco": acmn. Private to "yourself": rsuy.

"flamenco" · 8 letters · shape CCVCVCCV  ·  "yourself" · 8 letters · shape VVVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • flamenco ← falmenco · fflamenco · flaemnco · flamecno · flamencco · flamennco · flamenoc · flammenco
  • yourself ← oyurself · yoruself · youreslf · yourrself · yoursefl · yourselff · yoursellf · yourslef

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "flamenco" and "yourself" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "flamenco" is an adjective and "yourself" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "flamenco" or "yourself" show up more?
"yourself" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,854 in our German list, against #35,183 for "flamenco". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "flamenco" vs "yourself" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "flamenco" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "yourself" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #916,992 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "flamenco" and "yourself" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "flamenco 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 #916,992 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