recordsvsyourTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#19,686
“records” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
23097
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature records your
Definition Plural des Substantivs record dein, Ihr

Letter map: records vs your

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

7 ch
records
4 ch
your

Role in the sentence - records and your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: records is anoun and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23097, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

records is recorded at frequency rank #19,686, 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 23097, this pair ranks #1,865,820 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of records vs your

Shared letters: or. Private to "records": cdes. Private to "your": uy.

"records" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCC  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • recordsercords · rceords · reccords · recodrs · recordds · recordss · recorrds · recorsd
  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "records" and "your" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "records" is a noun and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "records" 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 #19,686 for "records". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "records" vs "your" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "records" 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 #1,865,820 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "records" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs records". 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 #1,865,820 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