strangervsyourWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#36,044
“stranger” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
39455
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature stranger your
Definition Fremder, Fremde dein, Ihr

Letter map: stranger vs your

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

8 ch
stranger
4 ch
your

Role in the sentence - stranger and your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: stranger is anoun and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39455, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

stranger is recorded at frequency rank #36,044, classified as anoun, 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 39455, this pair ranks #1,536,320 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of stranger vs your

Shared letters: r. Private to "stranger": aegnst. Private to "your": ouy.

"stranger" · 8 letters · shape CCCVCCVC  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • strangersrtanger · sstranger · starnger · stragner · stranegr · strangerr · strangger · strangre
  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "stranger" and "your" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "stranger" is a noun and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "stranger" 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 #36,044 for "stranger". 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 "stranger" and "your". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "stranger" 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 #1,536,320 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "stranger" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs stranger". 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 #1,536,320 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