recordingvsyourTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#44,871
“recording” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
48282
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature recording your
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs record dein, Ihr

Letter map: recording vs your

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

9 ch
recording
4 ch
your

Part-of-speech tell for recording / your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: recording is averb and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 5 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48282, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

recording is recorded at frequency rank #44,871, 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 48282, this pair ranks #1,254,282 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of recording vs your

Shared letters: or. Private to "recording": cdegin. Private to "your": uy.

"recording" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCC  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • recordingercording · rceording · reccording · recodring · recordding · recordign · recordingg · recordinng
  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "recording" and "your" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "recording" is a verb and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "recording" or "your"?
"your" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,411 in our German list, against #44,871 for "recording". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "recording" 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 #1,254,282 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "recording" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs recording". 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 #1,254,282 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