strongvsyourWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#20,073
“strong” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
23484
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature strong your
Definition stark dein, Ihr

Letter map: strong vs your

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

6 ch
strong
4 ch
your

Part-of-speech tell for strong / your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: strong is anadjective and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23484, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

strong is recorded at frequency rank #20,073, classified as anadj, 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 23484, this pair ranks #1,860,713 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of strong vs your

Shared letters: or. Private to "strong": gnst. Private to "your": uy.

"strong" · 6 letters · shape CCCVCC  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • strongsrtong · sstrong · storng · strnog · strogn · strongg · stronng · strrong
  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "strong" for "your" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "strong" is an adjective and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "strong" 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 #20,073 for "strong". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "strong" 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 #1,860,713 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "strong" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs strong". 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 #1,860,713 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