shared vs your, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#37,777
“shared” frequency rank: #3,411
“your” frequency rank: 41188
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	shared	your
Definition	Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs share	dein, Ihr

Letter map: shared vs your

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

6 ch

shared

4 ch

your

Role in the sentence - shared and your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: shared is averb and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41188, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

shared is recorded at frequency rank #37,777, 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 41188, this pair ranks #1,486,793 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of shared vs your

Shared letters: r. Private to "shared": adehs. Private to "your": ouy.

"shared" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC · "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

shared ← hsared · sahred · shaerd · sharde · sharedd · sharred · shhared · shraed
your ← oyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

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

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

Frequency check: "shared" vs "your" - which ranks higher?

"your" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,411 in our German list, against #37,777 for "shared". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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Full dictionary entry for "shared" 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 #1,486,793 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"shared" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs shared". 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 #1,486,793 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.