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.
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
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "googles" and "yourself" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "googles" or "yourself"?
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.