LucasvsyourTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#7,205
“Lucas” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
10616
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Lucas your
Definition englischer männlicher Vorname dein, Ihr

Letter map: Lucas vs your

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

5 ch
Lucas
4 ch
your

Role in the sentence - Lucas and your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Lucas is aname and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10616, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Lucas is recorded at frequency rank #7,205, classified as aname, 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 10616, this pair ranks #1,974,237 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Lucas vs your

Shared letters: u. Private to "Lucas": acls. Private to "your": ory.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Lucaslcuas · llucas · luacs · lucass · luccas · lucsa · ulcas
  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "Lucas" and "your" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Lucas" is a name and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "Lucas" or "your"?
"your" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,411 in our German list, against #7,205 for "Lucas". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "Lucas" 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 #1,974,237 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Lucas" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Lucas 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 #1,974,237 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