nostravsyourTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#42,711
“nostra” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
46122
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature nostra your
Definition Nominativ Singular Femininum des Pronomens noster dein, Ihr

Letter map: nostra vs your

Shared letters muted; letters that set nostra and your apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. nostra runs 6 letters (CVCCCV) against your's 4 (VVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
nostra
4 ch
your

Grammar separator: nostra vs your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: nostra is anunknown and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46122, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

nostra is recorded at frequency rank #42,711, classified as anunknown, 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 46122, this pair ranks #1,329,866 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of nostra vs your

Shared letters: or. Private to "nostra": anst. Private to "your": uy.

"nostra" · 6 letters · shape CVCCCV  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • nostrannostra · nosrta · nosstra · nostar · nostrra · nosttra · notsra · nsotra
  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "nostra" for "your" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "nostra" is an unknown and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "nostra" or "your"?
"your" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,411 in our German list, against #42,711 for "nostra". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "nostra" and "your".

  • Full dictionary entry for "nostra" 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 #1,329,866 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "nostra" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "nostra 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 #1,329,866 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