princessvsyourTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#23,666
“princess” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
27077
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature princess your
Definition ein weibliches Mitglied der königlichen Familie; Prinzessin, die Königstochter dein, Ihr

Letter map: princess vs your

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

8 ch
princess
4 ch
your

Role in the sentence - princess and your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: princess is anoun and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27077, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

princess is recorded at frequency rank #23,666, classified as anoun, 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 27077, this pair ranks #1,807,721 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of princess vs your

Shared letters: r. Private to "princess": ceinps. Private to "your": ouy.

"princess" · 8 letters · shape CCVCCVCC  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • princesspirncess · pprincess · pricness · princcess · princes · princeß · princses · prinecss
  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "princess" for "your" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "princess" is a noun and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "princess" or "your" show up more?
"your" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,411 in our German list, against #23,666 for "princess". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "princess" and "your".

  • Full dictionary entry for "princess" 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 #1,807,721 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "princess" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "princess 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 #1,807,721 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