sourcesvsyourTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#47,003
“sources” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
50414
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sources your
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs source dein, Ihr

Letter map: sources vs your

Shared letters muted; letters that set sources and your apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

7 ch
sources
4 ch
your

Part-of-speech tell for sources / your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: sources is averb and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50414, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sources is recorded at frequency rank #47,003, 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 50414, this pair ranks #1,174,554 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of sources vs your

Shared letters: oru. Private to "sources": ces. Private to "your": y.

"sources" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • sourcesosurces · soruces · soucres · sourcces · sourcess · sourcse · sourecs · sourrces
  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "sources" and "your" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "sources" is a verb and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "sources" 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 #47,003 for "sources". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "sources" and "your". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "sources" 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 #1,174,554 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "sources" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs sources". 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 #1,174,554 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