residence vs your, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#42,763
“residence” frequency rank: #3,411
“your” frequency rank: 46174
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	residence	your
Definition	Wohnort, Wohnsitz, Residenz	dein, Ihr

Letter map: residence vs your

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

9 ch

residence

4 ch

your

Role in the sentence - residence and your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: residence is anoun and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 5 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46174, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

residence is recorded at frequency rank #42,763, 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 46174, this pair ranks #1,328,042 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of residence vs your

Shared letters: r. Private to "residence": cdeins. Private to "your": ouy.

"residence" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCCV · "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

residence ← ersidence · reisdence · resdience · residdence · residecne · residencce · residenec · residennce
your ← oyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "residence" and "your" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "residence" is a noun and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "residence" or "your"?

"your" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,411 in our German list, against #42,763 for "residence". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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Full dictionary entry for "residence" 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 #1,328,042 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"residence" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs residence". 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 #1,328,042 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.