SieversvsyourWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#39,630
“Sievers” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
43041
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Sievers your
Definition deutschsprachiger Nachname, Familienname dein, Ihr

Letter map: Sievers vs your

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

7 ch
Sievers
4 ch
your

Role in the sentence - Sievers and your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Sievers is aname and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43041, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Sievers is recorded at frequency rank #39,630, classified as aname, 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 43041, this pair ranks #1,430,420 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Sievers vs your

Shared letters: r. Private to "Sievers": eisv. Private to "your": ouy.

"Sievers" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCC  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Sieversisevers · seivers · sieevrs · sieverrs · sieverss · sievesr · sievres · sievvers
  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Sievers" for "your" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Sievers" is a name and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Sievers" 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 #39,630 for "Sievers". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "Sievers" 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 #1,430,420 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Sievers" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs Sievers". 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 #1,430,420 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