ligavstheirTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#1,607
“liga” frequency rank
#11,131
“their” frequency rank
12738
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature liga their
Definition Krankheit ihr

Letter map: liga vs their

Shared letters muted; letters that set liga and their apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. liga runs 4 letters (CVCV) against their's 5 (CCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
liga
5 ch
their

Role in the sentence - liga and their

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: liga is anoun and theirapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12738, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

liga is recorded at frequency rank #1,607, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. their is at rank #11,131, 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 12738, this pair ranks #1,962,356 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of liga vs their

Shared letters: i. Private to "liga": agl. Private to "their": ehrt.

"liga" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "their" · 5 letters · shape CCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • liga ← ilga · lgia · liag · ligga · lliga
  • their ← hteir · tehir · theirr · theri · thheir · thier · ttheir

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "liga" for "their" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "liga" is a noun and "their" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "liga" or "their" show up more?
"liga" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,607 in our German list, against #11,131 for "their". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "liga" and "their".

  • Full dictionary entry for "liga" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "their" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,962,356 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "liga" and "their" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs their". 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 #1,962,356 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