questionsvsyourConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#36,570
“questions” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
39981
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature questions your
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs question dein, Ihr

Letter map: questions vs your

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

9 ch
questions
4 ch
your

Part-of-speech tell for questions / your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: questions is averb and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 5 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39981, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

questions is recorded at frequency rank #36,570, 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 39981, this pair ranks #1,521,420 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of questions vs your

Shared letters: ou. Private to "questions": einqst. Private to "your": ry.

"questions" · 9 letters · shape CVVCCVVCC  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • questionsqeustions · qquestions · quesitons · quesstions · questinos · questionns · questionss · questiosn
  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "questions" for "your" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "questions" is a verb and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "questions" or "your"?
"your" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,411 in our German list, against #36,570 for "questions". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "questions" 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 #1,521,420 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "questions" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs questions". 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 #1,521,420 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