PercyvsyourTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#21,384
“Percy” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
24795
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Percy your
Definition englischer männlicher Vorname dein, Ihr

Letter map: Percy vs your

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

5 ch
Percy
4 ch
your

Part-of-speech tell for Percy / your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Percy is aname and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24795, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Percy is recorded at frequency rank #21,384, 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 24795, this pair ranks #1,842,635 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Percy vs your

Shared letters: ry. Private to "Percy": cep. Private to "your": ou.

"Percy" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Percyeprcy · pecry · perccy · percyy · perrcy · peryc · ppercy · precy
  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Percy" and "your" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Percy" is a name and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "Percy" or "your"?
"your" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,411 in our German list, against #21,384 for "Percy". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "Percy" 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 #1,842,635 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Percy" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Percy 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 #1,842,635 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