PollockvstheirTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#49,968
“Pollock” frequency rank
#11,131
“their” frequency rank
61099
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Pollock their
Definition deutschsprachiger Nachname, Familienname ihr

Letter map: Pollock vs their

Shared letters muted; letters that set Pollock and their apart highlighted. No shared letter run. Pollock runs 7 letters (CVCCVCC) against their's 5 (CCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
Pollock
5 ch
their

Grammar separator: Pollock vs their

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Pollock is aname and theirapronoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61099, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Pollock is recorded at frequency rank #49,968, classified as aname, pronounced […]. their is at rank #11,131, 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 61099, this pair ranks #762,322 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Pollock vs their

Shared letters: none. Private to "Pollock": cklop. Private to "their": ehirt.

"Pollock" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC  ·  "their" · 5 letters · shape CCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Pollock ← opllock · plolock · pollcok · pollocck · pollockk · pollokc · polock · pololck
  • their ← hteir · tehir · theirr · theri · thheir · thier · ttheir

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Pollock" and "their" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Pollock" is a name and "their" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Pollock" or "their" show up more?
"their" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,131 in our German list, against #49,968 for "Pollock". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "Pollock" and "their". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Pollock" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "their" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #762,322 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Pollock" and "their" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Pollock 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 #762,322 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