screeningvsyourTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#30,760
“screening” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
34171
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature screening your
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs screen dein, Ihr

Letter map: screening vs your

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

9 ch
screening
4 ch
your

Grammar separator: screening vs your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: screening is averb and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 5 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34171, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

screening is recorded at frequency rank #30,760, 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 34171, this pair ranks #1,669,513 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of screening vs your

Shared letters: r. Private to "screening": cegins. Private to "your": ouy.

"screening" · 9 letters · shape CCCVVCVCC  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • screeningcsreening · sccreening · scerening · screeinng · screenign · screeningg · screeninng · screennig
  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "screening" and "your" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "screening" is a verb and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "screening" 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 #30,760 for "screening". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "screening" 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 #1,669,513 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "screening" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs screening". 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 #1,669,513 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