openingvsyourWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#30,228
“opening” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
33639
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature opening your
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs open dein, Ihr

Letter map: opening vs your

Shared letters muted; letters that set opening and your apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

7 ch
opening
4 ch
your

Role in the sentence - opening and your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: opening is averb and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33639, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

opening is recorded at frequency rank #30,228, 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 33639, this pair ranks #1,681,379 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of opening vs your

Shared letters: o. Private to "opening": eginp. Private to "your": ruy.

"opening" · 7 letters · shape VCVCVCC  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • openingoepning · opeinng · openign · openingg · openinng · opennig · openning · opneing
  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "opening" and "your" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "opening" is a verb and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "opening" or "your"?
"your" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,411 in our German list, against #30,228 for "opening". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "opening" vs "your" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "opening" 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 #1,681,379 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "opening" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "opening 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 #1,681,379 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