suspensionvsyourTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#47,038
“suspension” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
50449
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature suspension your
Definition Federung (Auto), Radaufhängung dein, Ihr

Letter map: suspension vs your

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

10 ch
suspension
4 ch
your

Role in the sentence - suspension and your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: suspension is anoun and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 6 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50449, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

suspension is recorded at frequency rank #47,038, 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 50449, this pair ranks #1,173,251 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of suspension vs your

Shared letters: ou. Private to "suspension": einps. Private to "your": ry.

"suspension" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVC  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • suspensionssupension · ssuspension · supsension · susepnsion · suspenison · suspennsion · suspensino · suspensionn
  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "suspension" for "your" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "suspension" is a noun and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "suspension" or "your"?
"your" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,411 in our German list, against #47,038 for "suspension". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "suspension" 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 #1,173,251 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "suspension" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs suspension". 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 #1,173,251 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