spielsvsyourWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#5,427
“spiels” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
8838
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature spiels your
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs spiel dein, Ihr

Letter map: spiels vs your

Shared letters muted; letters that set spiels and your apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

6 ch
spiels
4 ch
your

Part-of-speech tell for spiels / your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: spiels is averb and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 8838, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

spiels is recorded at frequency rank #5,427, 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 8838, this pair ranks #1,982,598 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of spiels vs your

Shared letters: none. Private to "spiels": eilps. Private to "your": oruy.

"spiels" · 6 letters · shape CCVVCC  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • spielspsiels · sipels · speils · spiells · spielss · spiesl · spiles · sppiels
  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "spiels" for "your" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "spiels" is a verb and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "spiels" 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 #5,427 for "spiels". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "spiels" 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 #1,982,598 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "spiels" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs spiels". 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 #1,982,598 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