poweredvsyourWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#38,951
“powered” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
42362
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature powered your
Definition Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs power dein, Ihr

Letter map: powered vs your

Shared letters muted; letters that set powered and your apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

7 ch
powered
4 ch
your

Grammar separator: powered vs your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: powered is averb and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42362, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

powered is recorded at frequency rank #38,951, 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 42362, this pair ranks #1,451,689 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of powered vs your

Shared letters: or. Private to "powered": depw. Private to "your": uy.

"powered" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • poweredopwered · poewred · poweerd · powerde · poweredd · powerred · powreed · powwered
  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "powered" for "your" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "powered" is a verb and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "powered" or "your"?
"your" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,411 in our German list, against #38,951 for "powered". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "powered" 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 #1,451,689 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "powered" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "powered 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 #1,451,689 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