kitavsyourTell them apart

Which to use

“kita” and “your” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#6,443
“kita” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
9854
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature kita your
Definition wir dein, Ihr

Letter map: kita vs your

Shared letters muted; letters that set kita and your apart highlighted. No shared letter run. kita (CVCV) and your (VVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

4 ch
kita
4 ch
your

Pair insight - kita / your

kita and your are indexed as a confusable German pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 9854, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

kita is recorded at frequency rank #6,443, classified as apron, 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 9854, this pair ranks #1,977,981 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of kita vs your

Shared letters: none. Private to "kita": aikt. Private to "your": oruy.

"kita" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • kitaikta · kiat · kitta · kkita · ktia
  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "kita" for "your" ever safe?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "kita" vs "your" - which ranks higher?
"your" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,411 in our German list, against #6,443 for "kita". 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 "kita" and "your". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "kita" 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 #1,977,981 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "kita" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "kita 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 #1,977,981 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