lowervsyourWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#32,156
“lower” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
35567
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature lower your
Definition niederlassen, niedrig machen, runtermachen dein, Ihr

Letter map: lower vs your

Shared letters muted; letters that set lower and your apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

5 ch
lower
4 ch
your

Grammar separator: lower vs your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: lower is averb and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35567, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

lower is recorded at frequency rank #32,156, classified as averb, 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 35567, this pair ranks #1,636,898 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of lower vs your

Shared letters: or. Private to "lower": elw. Private to "your": uy.

"lower" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • lowerllower · loewr · lowerr · lowre · lowwer · lwoer · olwer
  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "lower" and "your" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "lower" is a verb and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "lower" or "your"?
"your" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,411 in our German list, against #32,156 for "lower". 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 "lower" and "your". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "lower" 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 #1,636,898 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "lower" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lower 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 #1,636,898 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