ivyvsyourWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#30,136
“ivy” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
33547
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature ivy your
Definition Efeu dein, Ihr

Letter map: ivy vs your

Shared letters muted; letters that set ivy and your apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

3 ch
ivy
4 ch
your

Part-of-speech tell for ivy / your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: ivy is anoun and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33547, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ivy is recorded at frequency rank #30,136, 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 33547, this pair ranks #1,683,574 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of ivy vs your

Shared letters: y. Private to "ivy": iv. Private to "your": oru.

"ivy" · 3 letters · shape VCV  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "ivy" and "your" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "ivy" is a noun and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "ivy" 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 #30,136 for "ivy". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "ivy" and "your". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "ivy" 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 #1,683,574 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "ivy" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ivy 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 #1,683,574 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