googlesvsyourselfTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#25,158
“googles” frequency rank
#21,854
“yourself” frequency rank
47012
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature googles yourself
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs google [du] dich selbst; [du] dir selbst, [du] selbst

Letter map: googles vs yourself

Shared letters muted; letters that set googles and yourself apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. googles runs 7 letters (CVVCCVC) against yourself's 8 (VVVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
googles
8 ch
yourself

Part-of-speech tell for googles / yourself

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: googles is averb and yourselfapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47012, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

googles is recorded at frequency rank #25,158, classified as averb, 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 47012, this pair ranks #1,299,263 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of googles vs yourself

Shared letters: elos. Private to "googles": g. Private to "yourself": fruy.

"googles" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC  ·  "yourself" · 8 letters · shape VVVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • googlesggoogles · gogles · gogoles · googels · googgles · googless · googlles · googlse
  • yourselfoyurself · yoruself · youreslf · yourrself · yoursefl · yourselff · yoursellf · yourslef

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "googles" and "yourself" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "googles" is a verb and "yourself" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "googles" or "yourself"?
"yourself" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,854 in our German list, against #25,158 for "googles". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "googles" 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 #1,299,263 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "googles" and "yourself" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "googles 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 #1,299,263 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