minvsyourWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#1,562
“min” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
4973
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature min your
Definition Minute dein, Ihr

Letter map: min vs your

Shared letters muted; letters that set min and your apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

3 ch
min
4 ch
your

Part-of-speech tell for min / your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: min is anabbrev and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 4973, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

min is recorded at frequency rank #1,562, classified as anabbrev, 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 4973, this pair ranks #1,996,155 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of min vs your

Shared letters: none. Private to "min": imn. Private to "your": oruy.

"min" · 3 letters · shape CVC  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "min" for "your" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "min" is an abbrev and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "min" or "your" show up more?
"min" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,562 in our German list, against #3,411 for "your". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "min" 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 #1,996,155 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "min" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs your". 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 #1,996,155 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