fotovsyourselfConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#812
“foto” frequency rank
#21,854
“yourself” frequency rank
22666
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature foto yourself
Definition Licht [du] dich selbst; [du] dir selbst, [du] selbst

Letter map: foto vs yourself

Shared letters muted; letters that set foto and yourself apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

4 ch
foto
8 ch
yourself

Part-of-speech tell for foto / yourself

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: foto is anoun and yourselfapronoun. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22666, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

foto is recorded at frequency rank #812, classified as anoun, 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 22666, this pair ranks #1,871,288 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of foto vs yourself

Shared letters: fo. Private to "foto": t. Private to "yourself": elrsuy.

"foto" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "yourself" · 8 letters · shape VVVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • fotoffoto · fotto · ftoo · ofto
  • yourselfoyurself · yoruself · youreslf · yourrself · yoursefl · yourselff · yoursellf · yourslef

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "foto" for "yourself" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "foto" is a noun and "yourself" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "foto" or "yourself"?
"foto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #812 in our German list, against #21,854 for "yourself". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "foto" 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 #1,871,288 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "foto" and "yourself" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs yourself". 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 #1,871,288 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