# playing vs yourself

> German confusable word pair

## The two words

### playing
*verb · IPA […] · frequency rank #34,851*
Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs play

### yourself
*pronoun · IPA […] · frequency rank #21,854*
[du] dich selbst; [du] dir selbst, [du] selbst

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/de/vs/playing-vs-yourself