studentsvsyourTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#47,033
“students” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
50444
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature students your
Definition Plural des Substantivs student dein, Ihr

Letter map: students vs your

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

8 ch
students
4 ch
your

Grammar separator: students vs your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: students is anoun and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50444, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

students is recorded at frequency rank #47,033, 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 50444, this pair ranks #1,173,466 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of students vs your

Shared letters: u. Private to "students": denst. Private to "your": ory.

"students" · 8 letters · shape CCVCVCCC  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • studentssstudents · stduents · sttudents · studdents · studennts · studenst · studentss · studentts
  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "students" for "your" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "students" is a noun and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "students" 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 #47,033 for "students". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "students" 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 #1,173,466 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "students" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs students". 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 #1,173,466 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