sportingvsyourTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#47,016
“sporting” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
50427
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sporting your
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs sport dein, Ihr

Letter map: sporting vs your

Shared letters muted; letters that set sporting and your apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

8 ch
sporting
4 ch
your

Grammar separator: sporting vs your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: sporting is averb and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50427, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sporting is recorded at frequency rank #47,016, 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 50427, this pair ranks #1,174,088 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of sporting vs your

Shared letters: or. Private to "sporting": ginpst. Private to "your": uy.

"sporting" · 8 letters · shape CCVCCVCC  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • sportingpsorting · soprting · sporitng · sporrting · sportign · sportingg · sportinng · sportnig
  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "sporting" for "your" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "sporting" is a verb and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "sporting" or "your"?
"your" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,411 in our German list, against #47,016 for "sporting". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "sporting" 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 #1,174,088 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "sporting" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs sporting". 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 #1,174,088 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