grillovsyourConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#48,193
“grillo” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
51604
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature grillo your
Definition die Grille dein, Ihr

Letter map: grillo vs your

Shared letters muted; letters that set grillo and your apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. grillo runs 6 letters (CCVCCV) against your's 4 (VVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
grillo
4 ch
your

Part-of-speech tell for grillo / your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: grillo is anoun and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51604, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

grillo is recorded at frequency rank #48,193, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. your is at rank #3,411, 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 51604, this pair ranks #1,129,127 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of grillo vs your

Shared letters: or. Private to "grillo": gil. Private to "your": uy.

"grillo" · 6 letters · shape CCVCCV  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • grillo ← ggrillo · girllo · grilo · grilol · grlilo · grrillo · rgillo
  • your ← oyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "grillo" and "your" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "grillo" is a noun and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "grillo" or "your" show up more?
"your" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,411 in our German list, against #48,193 for "grillo". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "grillo" vs "your" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "grillo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "your" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,129,127 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "grillo" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "grillo 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 #1,129,127 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